• baatliwala@lemmy.worldOP
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    20 hours ago

    Amazing how Skype went from a verb to the shadow realm. MS could’ve done so much more.

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      17 hours ago

      Would seem almost intentional given the size and success of the company. How do you fuck something like that up so badly? Seems like one of those Embrace, Extend, Extinguish deals or similar

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      20 hours ago

      Word on the street is that MS couldn’t harvest the data they wanted out of Skype, even after turning off the encryption. So they let the Skype team keep on going because of reasons, while silently replacing them with teams.