Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand

Post by darklajid » Fri, May 11, 2018, 5:27 AM UTC

eksemplar wrote: post #175

erikb wrote: post #56

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Always when you hear the word "Enterprise" and it's not related to Star Trek it usually means "company that has made it so far and so stable up on the food chain that from now on they don't need to work hard anymore". If you have never worked in Enterprise software development, think about putting 100 first semester students into a room full of drugs and costumes and then letting them act "professional". What do you…

Skype for business is absolutely excellent though. We run it as the sole phone service for more than 10.000 employees and it’s the best we’ve ever had software wise. Further than that I can find, chat with or call my counterparts from our neighboring municipalities as though they were from our own. We also frequently use it for video meetings on our Microsoft surface (or whatever that 80” touch screen thing is called…

Post by mantas » Fri, May 11, 2018, 5:32 AM UTC

Jun8 wrote: post #5

"Since acquiring Skype from private equity investors, Microsoft has refocused the online calling service on the corporate market, a change that has made Skype less intuitive and harder to use ..." This is absolutely not the bulk of the problem: simply put, the call quality is horrendous and dropping calls in the middle of the meeting is quite common. Modus operandi in most Skype conference calls in our company is to…

Post by monocasa » Fri, May 11, 2018, 5:52 AM UTC

dmitriid wrote: post #384

monocasa wrote: post #358

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Why not? The signaling layer DHT probably shouldn't be on the phone clients, but everything else should be fine.

Because data plans and batteries run out too quickly. And the quality of the networks is really bad compared to non-mobile networks

Post by laurent123456 » Fri, May 11, 2018, 6:02 AM UTC

detritus wrote: post #250

ivraatiems wrote: post #25

Consumer Skype isn't just awful for calling, it's also awful as even a basic chat client now. Recent mobile updates have made it much, much harder to use and began prioritizing a SnapChat-style "stories" feature that nobody asked for or wanted, because there's already an app for that called SnapChat. I switched from Skype to Discord, as did pretty much everyone I know. It has all the same features Skype used to have…

I recently moved onto Discord from Skype to keep in contact with a couple of people I work with. It's ok, but has some really irritating quirks, from updating too frequently, with a fiddly-to-hide loading screen that likes to sit on top of all my other windows, to locking out the scrollbar on my browser intermittently (!) to the most egregious of all (for me): not allowing me to copy and paste text from Adobe Illustr…

Post by m_mueller » Fri, May 11, 2018, 6:07 AM UTC

bonestamp2 wrote: post #24

The current version of skype is rife with usability problems, they dropped a lot of key things since the last major version... - The mute/unmute button hides itself, even when your mouse pointer is ready and waiting right over top of it (to click when it's your turn to speak) - To add more kick to the nuts, they also apparently removed the mute/unmute shortcut key - Screen shares dim when your mouse is over them - If…