Re: goodbye Skype

On Sun, 2 Mar 2025, Blueshirt wrote:

Retrograde wrote:
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Internet calling service that disrupted landline industry to
close in May as tech giant says it will focus on Teams
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Skype[1] will ring for the last time on 5 May as owner
Microsoft[2] retires the two-decade-old internet calling
service that redefined how people connect across borders.
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Shutting down Skype will help Microsoft focus on its homegrown
Teams service by simplifying its communication offerings, the
office software giant said on Friday.

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I hate Teams!
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We uninstalled it from our work laptops/PC's and we use Zoom
instead for meetings. If it ain't broke....
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I haven't used Skype for years.
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Sad... I had an acquaintance who worked for skype researching novel ways to compress sound.
When they were acquired by microsoft, the Seattle boys called the shots, and they rejected his research in favour of something Microsoft developed that was very shitty.
He got angry, quit, and started to work at Google a couple of weeks later. They very much enjoyed his research on audio compression, and he is still there.