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- MSN Messenger - Windows Live Messenger - Microsoft Office Communications - Microsoft V-Chat - Microsoft Lync - Skype - Skype for Business (completely di

by hooby 4y ago

- MSN Messenger - Windows Live Messenger - Microsoft Office Communications - Microsoft V-Chat - Microsoft Lync - Skype - Skype for Business (completely different piece of software than skype) - Microsoft Classroom - Microsoft Teams (no guarantee of completeness) Some of these did better than others, but in the end they all went down the drain. That makes me suspect that it's not the software itself, but some corporate requirements that Microsoft imposes on their chat programs, that's the root cause of the problems.

baby 4y ago
Oh gosh, had to use Lync for work (on a Mac). The absolute horror.
adwww 4y ago
In fairness the Google list looks similar. - Hangouts - Wave - Plus - Duo - Meet - Chat
- hooby 4y ago
  Maybe they had similar requirements. Like integration of and into other products of theirs, or idk.
prmoustache 4y ago
Wasn't Skype for Business just a rebranding Lync after the Skype purchase ? This one was painful with your smartphone and computer not necessarily receiving the same messages. Also I never understood how and why my status was changing/not changing automatically. I think Teams still suffers from similar issues. It happens that sometimes I open a second teams in a separate browser to have a full chat window while videoconferencing and both chats are not always in sync, sometimes I see a message has been sent from the notification window but if I try to see the full message it never appears on that window while it does on another one.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago
  > just a rebranding Lync OCS, Lync and Skype for Business are all the same (quite shitty) product. Like in 2014 you couldn't send a message with more than 800 chars. Now imagine troubleshooting something which requires sending logs? AND this is not confirable AND the client actively bitch at you AND you can't even the know the char limit from the client. [0] https://techslaves.org/2015/06/03/lyncskype-for-business-message-limit/ https://techslaves.org/2015/06/03/lyncskype-for-business-mes...

by hooby 4y ago

baby 4y ago

Oh gosh, had to use Lync for work (on a Mac). The absolute horror.

adwww 4y ago

In fairness the Google list looks similar. - Hangouts - Wave - Plus - Duo - Meet - Chat

hooby 4y ago
Maybe they had similar requirements. Like integration of and into other products of theirs, or idk.

prmoustache 4y ago

Wasn't Skype for Business just a rebranding Lync after the Skype purchase ? This one was painful with your smartphone and computer not necessarily receiving the same messages. Also I never understood how and why my status was changing/not changing automatically. I think Teams still suffers from similar issues. It happens that sometimes I open a second teams in a separate browser to have a full chat window while videoconferencing and both chats are not always in sync, sometimes I see a message has been sent from the notification window but if I try to see the full message it never appears on that window while it does on another one.

justsomehnguy 4y ago
> just a rebranding Lync OCS, Lync and Skype for Business are all the same (quite shitty) product. Like in 2014 you couldn't send a message with more than 800 chars. Now imagine troubleshooting something which requires sending logs? AND this is not confirable AND the client actively bitch at you AND you can't even the know the char limit from the client. [0] https://techslaves.org/2015/06/03/lyncskype-for-business-message-limit/ https://techslaves.org/2015/06/03/lyncskype-for-business-mes...