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Summary​

• Skype is finally being shut down by Microsoft in May.
• Users are encouraged to switch to using Teams for calls and chats.
• Microsoft has been transitioning away from Skype towards Teams pretty much since Teams was introduced.

Exclusive: Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May

Feel free to use Teams

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Spotted by a savvy reader and verified by XDA, there's a message inside of the latest Skype for Windows preview that says, "Starting in May, Skype will no longer be available. Continue your calls and chats in Teams." That's followed by a note that a certain number "of your friends have already moved to Teams free", presumably based on your contacts.

 

[Spyxos]

But but my Stepdad is still using it.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Time to export some chats then.

 

[Sonik]

• Microsoft buys application loved by its userbase
• Within a month it centralizes all its servers so that their NSA buddies and spy on its userbase
• Within a couple of years it turns it into complete shit full of bugs
• Application no longer popular so MS shut it down

Many such cases

 

[Saber]

Why bother buying it in the first place?
Oh right...

 

[MrA]

• Microsoft buys application loved by its userbase
• Within a month it centralizes all its servers so that their NSA buddies and spy on its userbase
• Within a couple of years it turns it into complete shit full of bugs
• Application no longer popular so MS shut it down

Many such cases

And lost what was the most popular video call option, also many such cases
I wonder if ms can work their magic on call of duty

 

[T8SC]

I remember them killing MSN Messenger with the transition to Skype, now it's Skype being killed for Teams.

Fuck Teams. Bring back MSN Messenger.

 

[winjer]

Microsoft sure has a destructive mentality of constantly buying companies and studios, just to shut them down some years later.

 

[Lunarorbit]

Oh man I totally forgot about Skype. Wow. They were gonna be the wave of the future in telecommunications... oh well

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[SentientStone]

I remember them killing MSN Messenger with the transition to Skype, now it's Skype being killed for Teams.

Fuck Teams. Bring back MSN Messenger.

This, everything went downhill after ICQ and MSN Messenger...

*insert Grandpa Simpson shaking fist at cloud gif here*

 

[ReBurn]

At least tech support scammers still have Google voice.

 

[diffusionx]

My company was on Skype when the coof started and it was just totally unable to do anything, just totally nonworkable for video meetings and things like that. We had to buy a Zoom license as basically an emergency until MS quickly pushed Teams on us.

Microsoft is not a serious company.

 

[Fake]

Everything Microsoft touch become a shit.

 

[SlimySnake]

$8.5 billion down the drain. I bet no executives will be punished for this.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Our company used skype for conf calls and I thought it was great. But it couldnt do video calls. At least our version at work couldnt do it.

Then maybe 2019-ish, we got told to transition to MS Teams and Teams was shit. It barely worked, but it could do video calls assuming there wasnt any technical difficulties. didnt give a shit about seeing people, so I still did Skype calls with people. But at some point IT cut off Skype for good so everyone had to do Teams. I admit Teams is much better now. Occasional issues nobody knows why which require a host or guest to log off and log back on to work, or some reason the host cant share their PPT on screen, while another PPT does work, or the video they share has no audio etc.... but overall Teams does work pretty well now.

I think those are user errors because I've never had issues with connecting to Teams or sharing my screen.

If I remember correctly, I think IT said they changed due to capacity. Skype had crappier capacity, so that explains why small meetings were fine but our big town hall meetings were shaky. And they were. Our big company meetings over teams are fine.

 

[AJUMP23]

IF you told me MS was behind the COVID to make TEAMS happen I would believe you.

 

[Sybrix]

IF you told me MS was behind the COVID to make TAMS happen I would believe you.

"Damn TAMS, i knew it was them!"

 

[RCX]

Buy product.

"Improve" product

Make everyone hate product.

Kill product.

It's the Microsoft way.

 

[intbal]

Anything that doesn't contribute to Nutella's AI Singularity dream will eventually be shut down by Microsoft.

 

[Mikado]

"Damn TAMS, i knew it was them!"

Ah yes, Kojima did warn us about the Totalitarian Artificial Mastermind System

It's like something out of one of my Japanese Animes.

 

[winjer]

$8.5 billion down the drain. I bet no executives will be punished for this.

Exactly. They will just fire the workers and make some excuse about it.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Microsoft destroy everything they buy

 

[Porcile]

Skype is actually useful for making international phone calls. I have used it multiple times to call my bank and other phone services without getting ripped off. Classic Microsoft move.

 

[Quasicat]

We are a Microsoft school and Skype disappeared from our systems years ago when Teams became big right before Covid. Talk about being at the right place at the right time.

 

[HoodWinked]

He was so bad at his job.

 

[NeverYouMind]

At least Zoom exists for the average Joe.

 

[pauljeremiah]

Does this mean Microsoft will bring back MSN messenger?

 

[Badlucktroll]

He was so bad at his job.

i think ballmers biggest fuckup was buying nokia

 

[Drew1440]

• Microsoft buys application loved by its userbase
• Within a month it centralizes all its servers so that their NSA buddies and spy on its userbase
• Within a couple of years it turns it into complete shit full of bugs
• Application no longer popular so MS shut it down

Many such cases

MSN messenger was so good, the Skype aquision should have never gone through.

Microsoft sure has a destructive mentality of constantly buying companies and studios, just to shut them down some years later.

I'll never forgive them for what they did to Nokia, or Rare.

 

[MayauMiao]

Last time I used Skype was like 5 years ago just and even that is at the request by someone. The app is just buggy, unreliable, intrusive, and hardly anyone I know use it.

Good riddance.

 

[EverydayBeast]

I remember ps3’s weakness was communication and party chat and there were actual rumors of Skype coming to ps3 especially how psp had it

 

[Giallo Corsa]

Skype is actually useful for making international phone calls. I have used it multiple times to call my bank and other phone services without getting ripped off. Classic Microsoft move.

You can also do that with Viber using the Viber out option.

Talking about Viber, I don't know how or why people fot stuck with WhatsApp, Viber is so much better and clean looking compared to it...

 

[Mattyp]

You can also do that with Viber using the Viber out option.

Talking about Viber, I don't know how or why people fot stuck with WhatsApp, Viber is so much better and clean looking compared to it...

Skype is just an end of an era, there’s no reason for it to exist anymore. People use FaceTime audio, WhatsApp, and Facebook messenger. Teams has a heavy heavy presence in enterprise.

They got the patents out of Skype but there’s no other reason for it to exist anymore.

International calls I just use my phone and call out, doesn’t everyone do this…? It costs nothing.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

I'll add it to the list.

Killed by Microsoft

Killed by Microsoft is the open source list of dead Microsoft products, services, and devices. It serves as a tribute and memorial of beloved services and products killed by Microsoft.

killedbymicrosoft.info

 

[Dane]

i think ballmers biggest fuckup was buying nokia

It was, Ballmer buying a company that was falling down fast against the wishes of the rest of the top guys at MS was the straw that broke the camel's back, Windows 8 too was a mess.

 

[Mr Moose]

You can't even delete your Skype account without deleting your Hotmail account. So this news is good for me, Skype is dog shit these days.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

I guess the Skype is the limit

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

I remember them killing MSN Messenger with the transition to Skype, now it's Skype being killed for Teams.

Fuck Teams. Bring back MSN Messenger.

god msn messenger.

i spent every day on that. i remember they ditched it for skype. well it was Windows Live Messenger.

my name looked like

~~@@~~ d00m sl4yeR - TRUST ME i'm NOT okaay!! ~~@@~~

 

[Champomade]

$8.5 billion down the drain. I bet no executives will be punished for this.

They are doing fine

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www.google.com

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

But Xbox is definitely safe... right?

 

[MakeMudosGreatAgain]