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Skype was shut down for good today (www.washingtonpost.com)
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[–] VisionScout@lemmy.wtf 65 points 3 days ago (2 children)

skype was way ahead of his time. The quality was top notch. MS fucked by changing the architecture from decentralized to centralized in windows servers - this fucked up the calls quality and it created an opportunity window for whatsapp, viber, etc...

MS turned skype to shit.

[–] some_random_nick@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'll never get over MSN Messenger

[–] VisionScout@lemmy.wtf 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For video calls that was really bad compared to skype.

Unfortunately everybody was using it (i had to do it because everybody was using it).

[–] Darkenfolk@dormi.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Welk Yeah, it wasn't for video calls, it was for messages full of emoticons :)

[–] VisionScout@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 days ago

And the nudge!

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Story of the Microsoft..