Skype Shutting Down in May

[baldidiot]

End of an era: https://www.ccn.com/news/technology...-year-long-wind-down-subscription-model-flop/

Although I haven't personally used it in years. I think since covid I've only loaded it once.

We do use it for a number for the business though, which is annoying as that will need moving. But I'm crossing my fingers that they'll just migrate it into teams or something.

 

[username]

Skype always seemed second rate to me. Not very well cared for.

 

[ben]

They dropped the bag over COVID, they really should have poured 80% of profits into R&D to counter Zoom and Teams. Maybe not Teams, and they are a different model I guess. I don't think it's relevant anymore. Back in late 2000's it was more useful to have online calling like this, but now lots of other stuff exists, and even FaceTime etc.

 

[Hook]

Shame, I have contacts from Skype I have had for over a decade... what a strange time.

I'd much rather move to Telegram than Teams. TG is much better as a messaging app than Skype is (and Skype is a terrible video calling platform!) but I kept using due to familiarity

 

[ben]

Bring back MSN, really.

 

[Lee]

Bring back MSN, really.

The good old days!

A group of us domainers used to chat on MSN Messenger back in the early 2000s.

Happy times when shed loads of domains got released by Nominet in 2003 and 2004! I Remember back then when the public Whois only updated every 5 minutes and then F5 ing like hell to see if you got the domain or not!

Anyways, back to 2025!

 

[ben]

The good old days!

A group of us domainers used to chat on MSN Messenger back in the early 2000s.

Happy times when shed loads of domains got released by Nominet in 2003 and 2004! I Remember back then when the public Whois only updated every 5 minutes and then F5 ing like hell to see if you got the domain or not!

Anyways, back to 2025!

That sounds like fun.

 

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[Murray]

The good old days!

A group of us domainers used to chat on MSN Messenger back in the early 2000s.

Happy times when shed loads of domains got released by Nominet in 2003 and 2004! I Remember back then when the public Whois only updated every 5 minutes and then F5 ing like hell to see if you got the domain or not!

Anyways, back to 2025!

Would be cool to have a thread sharing stories about the earlier days of UK domaining

 

[RegalDomains]

They dropped the bag over COVID, they really should have poured 80% of profits into R&D to counter Zoom and Teams. Maybe not Teams, and they are a different model I guess. I don't think it's relevant anymore. Back in late 2000's it was more useful to have online calling like this, but now lots of other stuff exists, and even FaceTime etc.

Skype is itself a division of Microsoft and has been since 2011 (they bought it from eBay, who themselves acquired it in 2005) so it wouldn't make sense for them to poor money into R&D to compete with Teams, they bought it to replace Windows Live Messenger (which itself replaced MSN).

When they bought Skype a lot of the personnel they acquired went on to build Teams. Skype hasn't lost to Teams, it was superseded by Teams, which is essentially Skype 2.0.

I know this because my brother-in-law who worked for Skype in Tallin was one of them, and he still works today for Microsoft (although not in Tallin) working on the Teams product.

So whilst it was probably initially an $8.5bn product acquisition, it ended up being an $8.5bn talent acquisition really and resulted in the birth of Microsoft Teams.