Skype is dead...long live Teams

Today is the day Skype has been officially retired /killed off by MS 😭

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2...

Its now all Teams.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Today is the day Skype has been officially retired /killed off by MS 😭

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2...

Its now all Teams.

Only $8bn or so down the swanee. Go M$!

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Today is the day Skype has been officially retired /killed off by MS 😭 Its now all Teams.

Consumer Skype. The enterprise "Skype for Business" that replaced Lync remains and is due a newer version this year.

I assume the number of people using consumer Skype has fallen dramatically thanks to products such as Zoom, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Apple specific iMessage/Facetime.

Only $8bn or so down the swanee. Go M$!

That was a while ago, and they spent a lot of money rearchitecting from the original peer-to-peer architecture they inherited when it didn't scale. I suspect a lot of the video calling technology in Teams is directly related.

Wouldn't be getting installed on my pc
https://www.guidingtech.com/can-microsoft-teams-be-u...
And here
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/micro...

Edited by tommy45 (Mon 05-May-25 20:16:10)

Much of that is for corporate/enterprise MS Teams, quite a different product to the home user one.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

Much of that is for corporate/enterprise MS Teams, quite a different product to the home user one.

IMO, Even more reason NOT to TRUST this

Yeah I had fond memories of Skype, mostly in the noughties and early to mid 2010s as the defacto cheap way of having video calls with folks back home in Aussie and elsewhere.

Had a Philips cordless phone with built-in Skype, also had Skype integrated into my then Asterisk setup as a channel device. Was even doing basic room video conf using the TV, a webcam and an early Mac Mini.

Moved on to various other means of video meets and calls around the time of the pandemic. To be honest haven’t used it in years and suspect I’m not the only one….

Edited by Pheasant (Tue 06-May-25 06:28:20)

In reply to a post by tommy45:

IMO, Even more reason NOT to TRUST this

Tommy, we all don't have the same extreme distrust view of the world as you do, you clearly have a conspiracist mind set and you have demonstrated that on many occasions on this forum.

So the links I provided are conspiracy, are they? And time has shown that what people were saying years ago were conspiracy theorists, now have been proven to be correct

In reply to a post by tommy45:

So the links I provided are conspiracy, are they? And time has shown that what people were saying years ago were conspiracy theorists, now have been proven to be correct

There are none so blind as those that will not see.

In reply to a post by tommy45:

So the links I provided are conspiracy, are they? And time has shown that what people were saying years ago were conspiracy theorists, now have been proven to be correct

Overt monitoring of employees while they work is not illegal, I know lots of global companies that admit to doing it so using functionality within a computer app to do it isn't a conspiracy as much as you may want it to be. The second link is just garbage, if your going to highlight teams then you might as well highlight standard email if you want to talk about spreading malware.

In reply to a post by tommy45:

Wouldn't be getting installed on my pc
https://www.guidingtech.com/can-microsoft-teams-be-u...
And here
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/micro...

Concur, i do not use Microsoft products in a personal capacity. They've become spyware, spammy and fiddly.

Detest Teams especially with all the nags about "new features" nobody wanted. Always does it when you're busy.

Most Microsoft stuff is entirely blocked on my home network and will stay that way.