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Teams is a heavyweight behemoth with awful UX while Skype orginally had a very lightweight feel to it. Of course, Microsoft had to kill that through various UI
by kleiba 2y ago
Teams is a heavyweight behemoth with awful UX while Skype orginally had a very lightweight feel to it. Of course, Microsoft had to kill that through various UI "improvements".
Also, Skype has an official Linux client.
Instead of developing Teams (NIH at its best), they could have carefully developed Skype into a similar platform. But I'm not sure a giant like Microsoft is capable of something like this. But at least their 8.5bn investment wouldn't have been just to kill a competitor.
- high_na_euv 2y ago>NIH at its best How do you know? Teams feel totally different from Skype, from design perspective
- bombcar 2y agoTeams is just Skype for Business which was just rebranded Lync. They never were at all related to Skype which was based around p2p phone calls, not group chats or businesses.
- rchaud 2y agothe design is a re-skin of Skype for Business. The app is way more bloated now, so there is an additional pane of options for things like team-only chats, task tracking etc
- moltopoco 2y agoThe award for the most absurd "UI improvement" must go to the Skype iPhone app that was painstakingly rewritten so that it felt like a Windows Phone app, complete with gestures that didn't make sense to iOS users: https://www.neowin.net/news/skype-for-ios-completely-redesigned-now-looks-more-like-windows-phone/ https://www.neowin.net/news/skype-for-ios-completely-redesig... It was actually technically impressive, just...why??
- recursivecaveat 2y agoIt's a funny kind of myopia that causes companies to generate 'consistency' in ways that only make sense internally rather from customers' perspectives. 100% of Skype on IOS users interact with other IOS apps, vs some considerably smaller amount use Skype on Windows Phone or even Windows Desktop. When the conventions disagree the choice should be obvious...