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What does “pulling a Skype” mean in this context? I remember when they bought Skype it was “bad.” But do people really use Skype any less now than before?

ddorian43 8y ago
Since skype was bought my account (and many others) simply do not work on non-windows.
- usr1106 8y ago
  On Linux they have had a client "forever". I don't use it frequently, but I have no reason to believe that it work significantly worse than on Windows. (Some usecases were not supported IIRC, something with groupcalls maybe? Screensharing was dropped at some phase, but can be achieved by some v4l2 trickery to have the screen contents appear as a camera. No idea whther it is back, I have little reason to use skype these days.)
thrower123 8y ago
Heh, one of the awful things they did when they acquired Skype was rebrand a bunch of pre-existing products in the same general space with the Skype name, causing a huge amount of confusion. Hopefully they don't slap the GitHub name on everything under the sun; I'm optimistic, right now it seems like Azure and Office365 are the two catchall branding efforts.
behringer 8y ago
Skype is a shell of its former self, everybody has moved over to facebook or discord. The few friends I have who did still use Skype as of a few months ago have migrated to Wire. I only know one person that uses it now and they only use it because they still have a real phone number attached to it.
- partiallypro 8y ago
  I've hardly ever known a single person that has ever used Skype. I actually used to really like Lync when I worked for a company that used Office 365...but hated when they Skypified it. Microsoft Teams seems pretty awesome, but I haven't had the chance to use it. Skype does have a lot of business uses that it doesn't face any competition with...but they are features most people don't use.
  - ocdtrekkie 8y ago
    After leaving Google Talk behind, Skype was my primary chat app for a few years, but a lot of people I used to talk to on it have primarily moved to Discord at this point. I still like Skype more than Discord, but chat apps are wherever your friends are.
  - Catfishfinger 8y ago
    Teams is brilliant, really pulls together all of Office 365's products.
lawnchair_larry 8y ago
Yes, and those who do use it have been increasingly frustrated by what MS has done to it since then.
AareyBaba 8y ago
When they relabel Sharepoint as Github for Business - then you'll know we are screwed.

ddorian43 8y ago

Since skype was bought my account (and many others) simply do not work on non-windows.

usr1106 8y ago
On Linux they have had a client "forever". I don't use it frequently, but I have no reason to believe that it work significantly worse than on Windows. (Some usecases were not supported IIRC, something with groupcalls maybe? Screensharing was dropped at some phase, but can be achieved by some v4l2 trickery to have the screen contents appear as a camera. No idea whther it is back, I have little reason to use skype these days.)

thrower123 8y ago

Heh, one of the awful things they did when they acquired Skype was rebrand a bunch of pre-existing products in the same general space with the Skype name, causing a huge amount of confusion. Hopefully they don't slap the GitHub name on everything under the sun; I'm optimistic, right now it seems like Azure and Office365 are the two catchall branding efforts.

behringer 8y ago

Skype is a shell of its former self, everybody has moved over to facebook or discord. The few friends I have who did still use Skype as of a few months ago have migrated to Wire. I only know one person that uses it now and they only use it because they still have a real phone number attached to it.

partiallypro 8y ago
I've hardly ever known a single person that has ever used Skype. I actually used to really like Lync when I worked for a company that used Office 365...but hated when they Skypified it. Microsoft Teams seems pretty awesome, but I haven't had the chance to use it. Skype does have a lot of business uses that it doesn't face any competition with...but they are features most people don't use.
- ocdtrekkie 8y ago
  After leaving Google Talk behind, Skype was my primary chat app for a few years, but a lot of people I used to talk to on it have primarily moved to Discord at this point. I still like Skype more than Discord, but chat apps are wherever your friends are.
- Catfishfinger 8y ago
  Teams is brilliant, really pulls together all of Office 365's products.

lawnchair_larry 8y ago

Yes, and those who do use it have been increasingly frustrated by what MS has done to it since then.

AareyBaba 8y ago

When they relabel Sharepoint as Github for Business - then you'll know we are screwed.