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Skype got me through my first few years living in a different country from my family/friends/girlfriend/enployer. There was a time when whole companies were on

Skype got me through my first few years living in a different country from my family/friends/girlfriend/enployer. There was a time when whole companies were on Skype the way they're now on Slack. It's incredible how badly Microsoft mismanaged it.

sky2224 2y ago
> It's incredible how badly Microsoft mismanaged it. It's incredible how badly Microsoft mismanaged a lot of products. It genuinely makes me think they're aware of it at this point.
gloxkiqcza 2y ago
Skype for Business UX > MS Teams UX
- lmz 2y ago
  But Skype for Business isn't even Skype. Wasn't it just a rebranding of MS Lync?
  - MandieD 2y ago
    Yep. For the first few months after the rebranding, you could change a Windows registry setting to get the old Lync interface back.
  - fiverz 2y ago
    Lync because Skype for Business, yes.
    - bombcar 2y ago
      Which became Teams (somewhat). All the telephony side of Teams is very clearly Lync in a trench coat.
john_the_writer 2y ago
Yep.. in almost every way it should have beat out slack. It did everything better, and had a name. It was so very close, but lost. Mostly I think because of how hard it was to get non-users into it's eco system.
- tonyhart7 2y ago
  wdym non user?? it integrate nicely with windows eg:for sometimes skype installed by default on windows
disillusioned 2y ago
We were one of those companies. I remember that you had to alter the order of users added to a group in order to have multiple groups (the equivalent of "channels") with the same member list. We'd use that trick to essentially have per-project channels. It wasn't necessarily super graceful, but it mostly worked. When we made the jump to Slack in early 2014, we migrated as much of our Skype history as we could, which was _a project_, but again, mostly worked.
- moomin 2y ago
  I’m loving this: it’s a complete misfeature that anyone can point out is conceptually just wrong, but also implemented so incompetently there’s a workaround.
tonyhart7 2y ago
"Microsoft mismanaged it." they don't even manage it, like they just let it "stay" that way I think this is the problem with Trillion dollar company, they don't want focus on "small money" problem and they can just buy tech/company if they find it important enough in the future
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sky2224 2y ago

> It's incredible how badly Microsoft mismanaged it. It's incredible how badly Microsoft mismanaged a lot of products. It genuinely makes me think they're aware of it at this point.

gloxkiqcza 2y ago

Skype for Business UX > MS Teams UX

lmz 2y ago
But Skype for Business isn't even Skype. Wasn't it just a rebranding of MS Lync?
- MandieD 2y ago
  Yep. For the first few months after the rebranding, you could change a Windows registry setting to get the old Lync interface back.
- fiverz 2y ago
  Lync because Skype for Business, yes.
  - bombcar 2y ago
    Which became Teams (somewhat). All the telephony side of Teams is very clearly Lync in a trench coat.

john_the_writer 2y ago

Yep.. in almost every way it should have beat out slack. It did everything better, and had a name. It was so very close, but lost. Mostly I think because of how hard it was to get non-users into it's eco system.

tonyhart7 2y ago
wdym non user?? it integrate nicely with windows eg:for sometimes skype installed by default on windows

disillusioned 2y ago

We were one of those companies. I remember that you had to alter the order of users added to a group in order to have multiple groups (the equivalent of "channels") with the same member list. We'd use that trick to essentially have per-project channels. It wasn't necessarily super graceful, but it mostly worked. When we made the jump to Slack in early 2014, we migrated as much of our Skype history as we could, which was _a project_, but again, mostly worked.

moomin 2y ago
I’m loving this: it’s a complete misfeature that anyone can point out is conceptually just wrong, but also implemented so incompetently there’s a workaround.

tonyhart7 2y ago

"Microsoft mismanaged it." they don't even manage it, like they just let it "stay" that way I think this is the problem with Trillion dollar company, they don't want focus on "small money" problem and they can just buy tech/company if they find it important enough in the future

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