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Wasn't the problem with Skype (at least in part) that they bought a hollow shell and not the underlying technology?
by Tloewald 12y ago
Wasn't the problem with Skype (at least in part) that they bought a hollow shell and not the underlying technology?
- spacemanmatt 12y agoNot at all. They did get all of Skype's assets, but they modified the technology significantly to comply with NSA spying desires, as well as port the back-end from PostgreSQL to SQL Server. It was not a quick surgery, and now Skype is a regular old crappy MS product.
- kcbanner 12y agoI mean, Skype works just as well as it ever did on PC.
- Tloewald 12y agoI'm curious: on the Mac, Skype went through a major regression in terms of usability from 3? to 4? (I forget exactly which major version change it was; I do know that 6.xx is not significantly different from the version everyone I know avoided upgrading to until they were forced) -- did this not also happen on Windows?