Google Talk died in 2015, and Skype died last month.
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Google Talk died in 2015, and Skype died last month.
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Personally, I would argue that Skype was killed, rather than simply "died", although, unfortunately, the reports of its death are all too accurate.
From what I can see after a bit of testing, neither the Skype nor Google Talk identifiers appear on one's Profile Page > About tab. I set mine to a couple of secret words, which I'm certain no one will guess.
The fields might be vestigial parts of the overall forum config. Maybe they were more trouble to remove than simply hiding them was.
The fields might be vestigial parts of the overall forum config. Maybe they were more trouble to remove than simply hiding them was.
I don't understand why they made teams when skype for business still existed, and then they still killed off skype despite having 2 services being a problem they created themselves
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I do.
My sense is that - as so often happens in the commercial world, it is a business model that has been trodden all too often - is that they bought Skype in order to remove it (as potential competition for their own version which they sought to promote), starve it of resources (so that people will not wish to stay with it), and then, finally, fully kill it off, so that theirs is the only product offering this service.
The tragedy is that Skype was excellent, reliable, easy to use, worked well, was very reasonably priced - especially when one wished to make international calls, and could be used to contact landline and mobile phones (which is what I used it for, frequently, when deployed abroad for months at a time).
I loved it and deeply regret its demise.
And I loathe Teams, which, to my mind, is nowhere nearly as good as, or as easy as, Skype.
They killed off MSN Messenger for skype, sounds a bit like shooting themselves in the foot.
Yeah, the ability to call actual landlines was a good feature which many relied on, no idea why they didn't make an equivalent feature in a service considering it was most likely some of the reason why skype continued being used.
Good services come and go, sometimes in favor of objectively worse services. :( the escargot team are working on a skype revival, but it will never be the same.
hoping a skype-esque service comes along and dethrones discord or teams i don't really like discord and wish more of my friends were on XMPP in the meantime
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Not necessarily.
Rather, not if you wish to force, or compel, people to use the service you provide, by killing off a better product which may have been in direct competition to it.
Over the years, I used Skype for a great many landline calls, both international (when contacting my mother, when she was still with us, and for keeping in touch with my brothers, when I have been working abroad, sometimes, for months at a time, and keeping in touch with friends - with landlines - who live abroad) and national and it was absolutely brilliant.
Uncomplicated, easy to use, reliable, very affordable.
An excellent service.
Don't get me started on the dismal subject of Discord; what a horrible thing, I absolutely detest using it, and avoid it when at all possible (which means, these days, that I hardly ever use it).