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Isn't that basically what happened to Skype? Microsoft paid $8.5B for Skype when it was on top of the world, and now I don't know a single person who uses it.
by awill 5y ago
Isn't that basically what happened to Skype?
Microsoft paid $8.5B for Skype when it was on top of the world, and now I don't know a single person who uses it.
- iratewizard 5y agoThey got patent trolled and flinched. They removed the things that made Skype best in class and turned it into just another low quality corporate messenger.
- pzduniak 5y agoWas it really due to that lawsuit? IIRC the main issue with P2P was that you could discover anyone's IP address by knowing their Skype username. I recall that people used this to DoS people in multiplayer video games - they looked up accounts with roughly the same name as the in-game one and proceeded to drop their connection. It was especially common in League of Legends.
- throwaway89645 5y agoYep - It was bad enough that it was common practice for people to proxy their skypes through a third party. (It was pretty nice that Skype let you do that really easily though)
- queuebert 5y agoWhen my organization uses a Microsoft video conferencing product, we use Teams, not "Skype for Business". I have no idea why, as I don't schedule the meetings, but I can say that I can't imagine something sucking worse than Teams.
- shafyy 5y agoTeams is the worst. I constantly miss messages, the video calling feature randomly freezes videos of participants, and sometimes my audio doesn't work for no apparent reason. Their Wiki feature sucks, too.
- queuebert 5y agoIt's also a CPU hog. Why can I watch a 4K video in VLC for hours, but throwing up a couple of 200x100 windows in Teams kills the CPU? I guess Teams is written by interns.
- klhutchins 5y agoI just think about why would they force video conferencing into SharePoint?
- rsstack 5y ago"Skype for Business" sucks more than Teams. But it's true: it's hard to imagine something like "Skype for Business". I had to use it for a few months when working with a business unit in a different country that were all forced to use it. We were all happy when their business unit's IT department agreed to move them from Skype to Teams.
- anaccountexists 5y agoTeams is built on top of Skype for Business, SfB is one of the main backends for them.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoAnecdotal: It's still the primary communications thing in my company and probably our customers (telecoms / networks, probably quite archaic).
- tonyedgecombe 5y ago€5.4bn for Nokia and that didn't work out for them either.