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The bottom of the article links to the history (individual features) of other IM programs from that era as well like ICQ and Yahoo Messenger.

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[-] korthrun@lemmy.sdf.org 232 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Microsoft pivoted to Skype. Saved you a click and reading about 1000 words.

[-] orclev@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

Which Microsoft then shit all over (to be fair, Skype started that process even before MS bought them) and eventually renamed it to Microsoft Teams.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 37 points 1 week ago

And for a while, there was also Skype for Business (formerly Lync (formerly Communicator)).

[-] Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

For a while? Our business used it until ... this year. It's finally EOL this year.

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