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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by kevin_b_er on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @11:37PM (#32934541)
"Skype for Business" was just a rebranded Lync. Consumer-land skype remained a different thing until Microsoft killed that for Teams. Skype for Business' exe was lync.exe right up until the end. "Teams" was a brand new thing and didn't use the Communicator/Lync/Skype for Business architecture.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by weberer on Thursday September 22, 2022 @06:55AM (#32937183)
Then why does it say "Skype is using the microphone" In the KDE taskbar when on a Teams call?
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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by cuteboy19 on Thursday September 22, 2022 @12:07AM (#32934684)
>Skype for Business' exe was lync.exe right up until the end

What do you mean "end"? We still use it!

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by cube00 on Thursday September 22, 2022 @01:36AM (#32935121)
It's now end of life for Teams, there's no chance they'll rename the exe at this point. You'll be lucky to get anything except the most critical bugs fixed.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by nikau on Thursday September 22, 2022 @12:18AM (#32934748)
I miss skype, only because there was a pidgin plugin that allowed you to use a nice lightweight and snappy client.
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