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Bloomberg writes about how Microsoft turned consumers against a once popular brand, Skype. Before its sale in 2011, Skype was quite popular despite many shortcomings. After its purchase, existing shortcomings have been amplified and new ones added.
In March tech investor and commentator Om Malik summarized the negativity by tweeting that Skype was "a turd of the highest quality" and directing his ire at its owner. "Way to ruin Skype and its experience. I was forced to use it today, but never again."
Microsoft Corp. says the criticism is overblown and reflects, in part, people's grumpiness with software updates. There are also other factors undermining users' affection for an internet tool that 15 years ago introduced the idea of making calls online, radically resetting the telecommunications landscape in the process.
The purchase price was $8.5 billion USD, which will be hard to recover from Skype itself, so other factors must be at play but are not mentioned.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Webweasel on Tuesday May 15 2018, @08:41AM (2 children)
Then your sysadmins are shit. We have rolled it out. SSO works for skype, outlook, o365 etc and custom apps. It never asks for credentials, conversation history is logged and emailed to you. It's fast to respond.
Your sysadmin has screwed up the federation service somehow, this is bad implementation rather than Microsofts fault.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @06:12PM (1 child)
Normally I would agree with you, but... have you actually seen the backend required for SfB? Its infrastructure is so overly complex that Microsoft doesn't even bother documenting each component's installation. They had to write a fucking configuration management tool just to manage an instant messenger backend! And of course that tool doesn't integrate with SCCM, so you'll always have to manage your Skype backend separately from the rest of the environment...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @09:13PM
And yet some sysadmins manage to do it properly. The initial assessment stands: your sysadmins are shite.