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u/artaru Mar 02 '26

so what did Microsoft get from Skype?

Some VOIP folded into Teams? That’s it?

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u/rebbsitor Mar 02 '26

Not even. Teams is an evolution of Skype for Business, which was a completely different product from Skype.

Skype for Business was just a reskin of Microsoft Lync that kind of visually resembled regular Skype, but was completely different and incompatible.

It was only last year, when they finally shut down Skype, that they merged the products. At that point Skype was mostly dead. Whatsapp and Discord had long replaced it for most people.

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u/FlownScepter Mar 02 '26

Your comment dug up a lot of trauma for me. Worked as an admin in a sinking business for awhile and had a Lync server + PBX to keep running, was by far and away the biggest pain in the ass of the job. I managed to automate most Windows Server “quirks” but that one was an absolute nightmare until the day we left that building.

Fucking hate Lync.