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It's as if they saw how badly they messed up the Lync -> "Skype for business" transition and thought, "Yeah let's try that again".
by xnorswap 2y ago
It's as if they saw how badly they messed up the Lync -> "Skype for business" transition and thought, "Yeah let's try that again".
- RankingMember 2y agoIn my cynical frame of mind I imagine those execs then golden-parachuted off to Google and were responsible for the Google Pay, GPay, and Google Wallet debacle.
- SSLy 2y agoLinq is a C# DSL for SQL. You must have been thinking about Lync.
- Semaphor 2y agoIt’s not just a DSL, it’s also the fluent API. Because one thing Microsoft loves more than money, is confusing people with their naming.
- anyonecancode 2y agoThey say that "naming things is hard," but tbh I think some people and orgs are just really bad at naming.
- Semaphor 2y agoI can recommend "Totally made up conversations about choosing Entity Framework version numbers": https://blog.oneunicorn.com/2020/03/26/numbersarehard/ https://blog.oneunicorn.com/2020/03/26/numbersarehard/ ;)
- xnorswap 2y agoQuite right, too much muscle memory got me typing the wrong word.
- 13of40 2y agoIMO, the thing that went wrong with Lync->SFB transition was they bought Skype based on the idea that they could do something to merge the code with Lync, but over a year or two found out that that the only value was in the Skype branding, and the code and architecture of it was a dumpster fire. While the whole org was distracted by that, Teams came along and showed them what a rewrite from the ground up could do.
- ethbr1 2y agoTeams (Web) showed them. Teams (Windows, Old) showed them a rewrite from the ground up could still be a dumpster fire.
- yamazakiwi 2y agoI had a friend who worked high up at Lync before they were sold. Microsoft flew him out and threatened lawsuits to coerce them to sign and play ball. I was working at Microsoft during the switch to Skype for Business and the employees were dogfooding the beta. Terrible time to be alive.
- marcosdumay 2y agoCommunicator -> Lync (after the computer system of a dystopian videogame?) -> Skype for Business (because everybody knew Skype, so let's make this completely unrelated thing) -> Teams. Every step was about as fucked-up as every other.