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Re:Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand by fhood on Thursday May 10, 2018 @11:20AM (#17039632)
I can not agree with you more. Skype for business has is an unmitigated disaster of a piece of software and whatever team is in charge of it needs to be fired or relocated so that Microsoft can start over on it.

Skype for business is so insultingly bad that it is pretty much the only piece of widely used software that I am willing to claim that given a month I could write something far better.

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Re:Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand by typon on Thursday May 10, 2018 @11:37AM (#17039832)
Somehow it is WORSE than Microsoft Office communicator we used to use at my company.
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Re:Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand by kup0 on Friday May 11, 2018 @08:48AM (#17046895)
Agreed. I've worked at two places now that have undergone the switch and it was worse in both cases. Not only the software being worse than its 2007 predecessor, but the upgrade itself broke all sorts of internal tools and functionality, thanks to unnecessary changes to the registry and SFB's desire to put add-ins in everything (IE, Outlook, Firefox, etc).
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Re:Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand by consumer451 on Thursday May 10, 2018 @11:29AM (#17039740)
I believe they have stopped putting much effort into Skype for Business and are hoping to move everyone to Teams ASAP.
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Re:Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand by fhood on Thursday May 10, 2018 @11:32AM (#17039765)
I have heard this before, but it doesn't explain why it was ever released without features such as, I don't know, WORKING CONVERSATION HISTORY!
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Re:Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand by inetknght on Thursday May 10, 2018 @04:09PM (#17042516)
Skype used to have working conversation history. It's one of the features which was removed.
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Re:Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand by consumer451 on Thursday May 10, 2018 @12:16PM (#17040236)
Oh, agreed, it is nearly useless.
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