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The demise of Skype was not in the 90s. There are reasons to be vary of the news, although the immediate panic is unaccounted for.
by pmlnr 8y ago
The demise of Skype was not in the 90s. There are reasons to be vary of the news, although the immediate panic is unaccounted for.
- mrmondo 8y agoIndeed, nor was LinkedIn, Yammer etc... there is no ‘new’ Microsoft - that’s the same old marketing spin they use every decade to try and make themselves seem ‘hip’ by blaming previous employees rather than changing their ugly business model and lack of ethics.
- nottorp 8y agoWell, they have "improved" Linkedin and Skype to the point that usability has gone way down, and resource use way up. It's easy to extrapolate and expect the same with github. Fortunately we mostly use the repos, not any of the other features, so migrating away will be easy if needed.