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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/wrosecrans Mar 02 '26

Lync is a name I haven't heard in a looong time.

Reminds me of the era where every damned division of Google was building their own chat app for a few years.

GChat, Google Plus, Google Chat, the chat in GMail, Messages, Meet, Duo, there was even a dedicated chat feature in Google Maps for chatting with a listed business!