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On May 5, Microsoft’s Skype will shut down for good (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 months ago by QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Understandable choice, given that Skype is pretty much redundant with Teams. Back in 2004-2005 Skype was really hyped because of free voice calls through the Internet, but few days later several other messaging apps incorporated that feature; Skype's thunder was stolen. Also its inconsistent branding was a problem: there was Skype for Business that later became Lync, ultimately becoming Teams. Skype kind of became forgotten and obsolete.

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[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 17 points 2 months ago

You joke but their idea is to migrate all the remaining skype users to Microsoft Teams (consumer edition, incompatible and not interoperable with Teams business edition, they have the exact same icon but with the colors reversed)

It's the same stuff, but worse™️

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