I fell out of contact with a lot of people when they shuttered MSN messenger for Skype, so not sad to see it go.
this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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MSN Messenger was brilliant. At the time I used it, everyone I knew used it. It was the go-to for communication.
I'm 39. So I've been around Skype since it came out back in 2003. Since then, 22 years later I didn't use it a single time. Never downloaded the program, app or accessed the webpage. 🤷
I used Skype a couple of times - I was talking to someone overseas. This was pre zoom. It’s interesting that they dropped the ball, they could have been zoom.
I remember the "old" Skype, which was essential for keeping in touch with my siblings before we got cell phones. Once I got a phone, it was the end of Skype until ~2014 when I got a job where Skype for business was available. I still didn't use it because that application would sometimes crash if you just jiggled the mouse. It became a running joke at my workplace.
Clock into work, Skype crashed.
Go to lunch, Skype crashed.
Ran out of TP at home. You guessed it. Skype crashed.
Somebody send a gift basket to the Skype CEO, he's not doing so well.
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It’s sad… Skype saved my butt when I was stuck in Peru and needed to call for help in my home country. I had found out 1-800 lines didn’t use call credits
I find it funny Microsoft gave me a survey on my work PC asking about how I'm enjoying its products (I laughed in Linux, "how do you like windows customizablity" let me go off about KDE lol)
But back to the subject. Literally everything they work on seems to turn to shit
I wonder what kind of survey feedback are they usually getting? "Oh, Skypes cool but I really like Teams"
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Can I guess that the American amoral capitalist company won’t have transferred my Skype credit?
I had like $9.22 remaining credit from some international calls back in 2002 I was going to use...eventually.
Is Microsoft planning to release a viable replacement at some point?
I never really used Skype as a VOIP platform, but it was a great tool for many years for calling international phone numbers affordably. I'm sure it helped many people saving a lot of money calling their friends and relatives. For that I remember it somewhat fondly.
Huh?
I thought Skype was still a widely used thing.
Well; not any more. That's for sure.
microsoft pissed away all the brand recognition it ever had and turned it into teams. in 2020 it was poised to be the most important technology there was, but having received no updates in years, it was effectively already dead
I haven't heard of anyone using Skype in over a decade.
Was.