That’s all.

EDIT: Thank you all for detailing your experience with, and hatred for, this miserable product. Your display of solidarity is inspiring. Now, say it with me:

Fuck Microsoft

  • Evil_incarnate@lemm.eeEnglish
    7210·
    1 month ago

    Skype used to be peer to peer. Your call went from you to your friend (whomever). Microsoft decided that they couldn’t mitm that setup to scrape data; so, soon after they acquired Skype, they made all calls go through their servers.

    Then they tried to make Skype make more money, since those servers aren’t free. Then they made teams and copied half the code into that, and cludged the rest to make it hold together.

    • sunbeam60@lemmy.oneEnglish
      605·
      1 month ago

      In mean aside from the fact that almost all of that story is completely wrong, it’s a good story.

      Source: Used to work at Microsoft and worked a lot with people from the Skype team.

      • OsrsNeedsF2PEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        You should write a post sometime about what you know from the internals of Skype. I would read it.

        • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
          111·
          1 month ago

          And at least garbage let you make international calls with the money you put into it. Nitro-saturated sewer water gives you what—a bit of extra bandwidth utilization, 2 free tokens to prove you’re above the poverty line, and discounts on paid cosmetics?