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Skype was shut down for good today (www.washingtonpost.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Can I guess that the American amoral capitalist company won’t have transferred my Skype credit?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I had like $9.22 remaining credit from some international calls back in 2002 I was going to use...eventually.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (3 children)

For us plebs. Government (US) will still use it for years to come.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think Teams has already taken over there as well.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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"

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Skype you later!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I actually had a Skype phone back in the days

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

Is Microsoft planning to release a viable replacement at some point?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days 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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Huh?
I thought Skype was still a widely used thing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

I haven't heard of anyone using Skype in over a decade.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Was.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

IMO Skype to this day has the best emojis.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

https://archive.ph/lXBd1