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Skype to shut down for good within hours. The final farewell to Skype
farsighter
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https://metro.co.uk/2025/05/04/skype-shut-good-within-hours-save-data-23022216/
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Tagging @DediRock
Any Skype-down deals?
they will migrate contacts to ms teams?
Refugee offers please.
its fine i love Teams so much - said noone ever
Glossing over the fact that it was independent, popular and successful until being taken over by Microsoft some years later. Its demise was then inevitable and deserved.
Edit: rogue apostrophe.
There's a total collapse of business projects in the west.
there are so many apps, skype is not popular anymore, also it collects everything, i miss Periscope live streaming app more
Nokia comes to mind, the successful start and the brand crash after Microsoft bought them. Tried to rebuild with another company but failed miserably.
In 2009, Skype created an awesome open-source SILK audio codec designed for preserving high quality at low bitrates.
Later it was merged into another open-source audio codec called Opus which we now use for free on the web.
Then Skype got acquired by MS. It went downhill from there...
If Nokia had further developed MeeGo or Maemo for their phones, it would have been so awesome. As soon as they started using Windows Mobile it was their death knell. Now we have Jolla, which is run by a bunch of former Nokia devs, who have developed the Sailfish(X) OS. I used it (beta) on my old Nexus 4 phone in (2014), and it felt so ahead of it's time.
Its actually ebay that bought skype from its og owner first, then Microsoft bought it from ebay. In the early days its even p2p, you can selfhost its master server to be a relay no need Microsoft cloud server and crap.
You're right. Every single business venture ever begun in the West has completely collapsed. It's so obvious. There's not a single business left in the West. Not one.
and
It wasn't Microsoft that killed Nokia, Nokia killed itself before Microsoft even got involved. Nokia was struggling by the time Microsoft acquired them.
You see, the same year my brother bought the HTC Hero, I purchased one of Nokia's flagships, the N95... and it was still a Symbian phone.
By 2010, all the major brands at the time, Samsung (Galaxy S), HTC, Motorola, and LG... had already released their Android phones. Meanwhile, Nokia didn't ditch Symbian until 2011 and didn't fully phase it out until around mid-2013.
Maemo was never really a mainstream option, just something for enthusiasts, since Nokia was still heavily betting on Symbian. And MeeGo, though loved again by some enthusiasts, only saw one device, that is the N9 in 2011. Again, too late. Android adoption was already widespread by then. They simply missed the train.
When Microsoft bought Nokia's Devices and Services division in 2013, Nokia was already in a weakened and declining state.
What I really hated related to this topic was Microsoft killing MSN in favor of Skype.
That was the real thing. Damn fuckers!
I had a Symbian phone, and then Windows Phone before Android. I hoped for a better alternative, but in the end, that's what we got. Android and IOS.
Rip. It was fun at the early days of my childhood. Skype is the instant messaging piece of software that I use back then.
I’m glad that they’re finally getting rid of that pile of shit. It was a nightmare to use in corporate environments. MS Teams was a blessing in that context. Maybe Microsoft made it that way to promote Teams, but at the end of the day, we just needed something that works, and after switching to Teams back in 2020, pretty much no one even gave two shits about Skype.
RIP childhood. MSN, Live Messenger, now Skype.
Also a messenger called ICQ...
RIP Skype.... welcome Teams
any reasonable way to use teams for voice calls to landlines without stupid microsoft subscriptions? had a small reliable prepaid deposit in skype. rip
The Skype deposit is still available through this web-dial-pad (uncomfortable) but apart from this, I don't think it works directly with teams anymore. Microsoft has a different backend provider for landline calls with teams than it has with skype.
thanks will check this out!
Yahoo messenger
To me, nothing can replace the fun of MSN, not even Skype.
I still remember my ICQ number, six digits.
My sms notification on my phone is the old "uh oh" ICQ sound. It still amuses me to see some Gen X turn their head and smile when I get an sms in public.
Absolutely stealing this, thanks!
Please upload the audio file in original quality.
A good tool that could have become a good competition to WhatsApp just had to retire due to a lot of mismanagement! Here is the full story
https://sounddino.com/en/effects/icq/
Nokia still exist out there, instead of hanging around if they develop New OS for phones ,they can bounce back to the market
(Something like better ram management,better UI, at lower power usage)