Submitted 10 months ago by comador@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/05/skype-shutting-down-microsoft/
I find it funny Microsoft gave me a survey on my work PC asking about how I’m enjoying its products (I laughed in Linux, “how do you like windows customizablity” let me go off about KDE lol)
But back to the subject. Literally everything they work on seems to turn to shit — I wonder what kind of survey feedback are they usually getting? “Oh, Skypes cool but I really like Teams”
Literally everything they work on seems to turn to shit
Not the MS Office though.
It was dead to me after microsoft bought it.
It really went downhill from them on.
And as a follow up, Teams was never good because it was never native to anything (instead it was Electron and is now some sort of React/Edge homebrew).
On one hand, having been forced to use Skype, I’m happy to see it gone. On the other hand, they somehow made it worse and called it Teams.
Please don’t confuse skype4biz and Skype. The former only borrows the name, and shares a lot of code with teams, Lync and probably netmeeting.
The latter will be missed.
Skype for business was truly awful.
A new convo instance every time I messaged the same person after a few hours of not, taking upwards of 10 minutes to sync convos between my laptop and my phone if it did at all, and the shittiest voice/video functions ever? Glad that shit died, teams seems amazing in comparison.
Communicator should be in there somewhere, too
Is Microsoft planning to release a viable replacement eventually?
Teams is their replacement, viable or not
they could have kept the skype name on the ‘consumer’ product, even if underneath it was the same piece of shit teams, just with ‘enterprise’ features hidden.
Teams helps cooperation by uniting everyone through their shared hatred for Teams.
Huh?
I thought Skype was still a widely used thing.
microsoft pissed away all the brand recognition it ever had and turned it into teams. in 2020 it was poised to be the most important technology there was, but having received no updates in years, it was effectively already dead
I haven’t heard of anyone using Skype in over a decade.
Well; not any more. That’s for sure.
MSN messenger died for Skype
Skype died for Teams
We’re not on a great trajectory here
(Yes Lync too, but everyone was pleased about that)
Did it die, though? Last time I had to use windows for work (shudder) the Teams app process name was lync.exe. Or was it Skype?
Either way, shit’s still around.
Teams died for Teams (New)
Teams dying doesn’t sound too bad either. Just hoping the next iteration isn’t even worse
Next iteration will be “Copilot for Teams”.
Whenever you get a message, Copilot will auto-send an answer unless you click “no” in a popup without window decorations, showing a timer.
On Windows Pro, you can disable this with a registry key, but that resets with feature updates.
Next iteration will be MSN Messenger
Given M$'s track record, it definitely will be worse…
Teams will die for Copilot somehow.
Teams
New Teams
Teams (New)
Teams with Copilot
Copilot Teams
And MSN was so much better.
Can imagine your boss nudging you? Lol
What most people don’t know about the ouroboros is that every time the creature eats itself it becomes a little bit closer to being a turd so even though from an inside perspective the system appears to be in a complex mysterious cyclic kind of stasis, from the outside it is just more and more obviously a turd in the shape of a donut.
Rip to a real one
farcaster@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I never really used Skype as a VOIP platform, but it was a great tool for many years for calling international phone numbers affordably. I’m sure it helped many people saving a lot of money calling their friends and relatives. For that I remember it somewhat fondly.