SoylentNews
SoylentNews is people
https://soylentnews.org/

Title    How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype
Date    Monday May 14 2018, @07:21PM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the because-Microsoft? dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/05/13/1731241

canopic jug writes:

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.


Original Submission

Links

  1. "canopic jug" - https://soylentnews.org/~canopic+jug/
  2. "how Microsoft turned consumers against a once popular brand, Skype" - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-10/don-t-skype-me-how-microsoft-turned-consumers-against-a-beloved-brand
  3. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=26606

© Copyright 2024 - SoylentNews, All Rights Reserved

printed from SoylentNews, How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype on 2024-03-28 14:53:49