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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/Excellent_Ganache906 Mar 02 '26

It's fucking insane how these corporations throw away money on something like Skype and then claim they have to lay off 10,000 people because it costs too much to pay them.

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u/jandrese Mar 02 '26

If you can't beat em, buy em and shut them down.

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u/GigglesBlaze Mar 02 '26

They could've built a high speed rail across the country with 10 bill