Re:New Skype Update Is Horrible
by Fezzik on Monday July 03, 2017 @06:13PM
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It really is astonishing. I remember using Skype around 2004/05 on a horribly crappy Dell laptop and it (Skype) worked flawlessly. It sort of boggles the mind how far in to the ground it has been driven.
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That would be when it was done by the Swedish founders, written in Pascal, by people who cared about users more than press releases.
It's like an artist who doesn't know when to stop painting.
It's more like a mediocre artist buying a great painting made by a master and the decides to "improve" it by adding more and more paint.
Re:New Skype Update Is Horrible
by thedailymail on Monday July 03, 2017 @09:16PM
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The software monkey christ
Re:New Skype Update Is Horrible
by codedokode on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @01:40AM
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I think Skype was the first app that would allow to talk for free across the globe even on poor (modem) connections.
Not even close. Just off the top of my head, Roger Wilco is 5 years older, and TeamSpeak is also older than Skype.
In terms of mass adoption, with regard to Skype, is what I imagine he meant. Anyway, it was certainly true for me. I had to make a lot of calls to less developed parts of the world then, and it worked reasonably well.