didnt microsoft remove the p2p functionality and made skype highly centralized?
Yes, but speaking from experience, that change resulted in a huge improvement in call quality. The P2P architecture is nice but leaves you at the mercy of your nearest node's internet connection and usage.
Not my experience. Having network issues all the time.
They did so because it was hard to do P2P for Skype on phones.
I figured that was just a figleaf and that the real reason was that this made it easier to intercept the traffic.
Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
by unusximmortalis on Monday June 13, 2016 @11:06AM
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it is true the skype has some issues since MS acquired them, and there were some changes/decision made on it which I disliked, however, it is performing better lately. hopefully it will turn around.
If anything, MS is starting to slowly take it to a better direction, even though it is nowhere near the ideology of the original Skype.
I believe that LinkedIn will end up being a similar case, where it will continue to suck, but you'll see some slow progress eventually.
EDIT: As pointed out, LinkedIn will likely continue operating independently, as did Skype, which explains the slow progress.