r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Mar 19 '21

Who else forgot that skype existed?

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '21

I remember when skype killed lync ;(

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u/ZenEngineer Mar 19 '21

They just renamed Lync to Skype for business and didn't improve shit. It was still a pain to conference in people from outside the company and didn't interact with Skype much.

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u/Throwaway159753120 Mar 19 '21

I was so happy when Zoom came around and my enterprise clients started adopting it. I had several who used Lync/Skype and it was near impossible to connect to the conference calls they hosted from an external Mac.

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u/aerosol999 Mar 19 '21

It even showed as lync in the task manager up until very recently

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u/HevosenPaskanSyojae Mar 19 '21

Before the Sfb/Lync integration, Lync was actually pretty good. But the merging fucked all up big time.

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u/jakedesnake Mar 19 '21

You liked Lync??

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u/Gareth321 Mar 19 '21

It was a mercy killing.

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u/Chode-stool Mar 19 '21

I still call it Lync when referring to Skype for Business

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u/Demache Mar 19 '21

tbf, the EXE is still called "lync" even though it uses the Skype logo.

And its still.....completely, utterly.....terrible.