this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2024
537 points (94.7% liked)

Technology

59656 readers
4059 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 7 months ago

If the pandemic had happened 10 years earlier, I'm pretty sure Skype would have been the choice everyone reached for

How Microsoft managed to so thoroughly squander a market dominant position and generally positive public option to the extreme they have I'll never understand

Even did a two-fer by destroying the progress Lync was making on the business side by rebranding it Skype for Business, while simultaneously losing interest in improving the platform, making it fall behind the curve badly and causing business to see it as more of a toy by branding it like a consumer product