Depending on when and how you started a chat, it would use one or the other system with no obvious indication but many subtle differences in terms of supported features. * They introduced multiple different types of chats as an attempt to transition from P2P to cloud-based. ![]() * They replaced a reasonably fast (on Windows) or extremely fast and native (on Linux) application with a slow and bloated Electron-based client that was initially missing many of the features. In 2021, my org pays for Teams and Skype and we use a mix of SMS/iMessage and a million other things because no one IMs any more. ![]() In 2001, my company was using yahoo messenger, for free, without any of the problems above with 200 people IMing hundreds of times a day (although we never video or voice called). Who would use that.Ĭoupled with Skype being the reason why all other instant messenger apps were banned from orgs. Imagine is SMS sometimes didn’t deliver messages. I’d rather email than have a tool that works 90% of the time. Instant messaging is so simple and using Skype is worse than nothing. Sometimes that message actually was delivered Messages aren’t delivered, sometimes with an error that says “prepend couldn’t be reached so message wasn’t delivered” even though the user shows as online and green Video works or doesn’t work unpredictably. Screen share works or doesn’t work unpredictably. Sometimes client will freeze in the background and not take calls or IMs ![]() ![]() Client will peg cpu at 100% for unknown reasons while idling Skype for business is a giant ball of shit and perhaps the worse messenger product I’ve ever used, and I’ve used them all since IRC and text in 1993. Personal Skype is annoying because it expires credits, so every couple months I have to log in and send a single text to spend some money.Īll my other Skyping is just messaging and calls for free so it’s lame that they keep trying to expire the money I spent.
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