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Re:Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype after 14 years of n... by chneu on Friday February 28, 2025 @05:23AM (#43203989)
I've been using Gvoice pretty much since it started. I'm just as surprised as you that Google hasnt killed it. The writing has seemed to be on the wall a few times but it's still around, thankfully.

When they semi-killed hangouts a couple years ago I thought for sure Gvoice was gone.

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Re:Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype after 14 years of n... by xnx on Friday February 28, 2025 @07:43AM (#43205000)
Google Voice is weird. It seemed like they should've killed it, but they just added a few minor features this week.
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Re:Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype after 14 years of n... by Multicomp on Friday February 28, 2025 @08:44AM (#43205476)
Somewhere we are going to get the novel about the quiet hero team anonymously keeping Google voice going all these decades.

contorting to keep it off management's radar, explain away any foibles, redirecting minor funds to get maintenance and tech debt paid off just enough to work another year, someone's going to write that tech story some time.

Even if it's fictional it will be a good read.

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Re:Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype after 14 years of n... by vel0city on Friday February 28, 2025 @10:56AM (#43207050)
It felt like it was slowly withering until they rolled it into their business communications suite a few years ago. Now it is pretty much a proper part of Workspace.
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Re:Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype after 14 years of n... by dustincoates on Friday February 28, 2025 @10:54AM (#43207032)
I've used Google Voice as my primary number since 2010, and started using it before Google even owned it (i.e., when it was Grandcentral).

Development seems to have (relatively) picked up recently. There was a period of about five years when I don't think there were any publicly announced developments. Now we'll get maybe one a year or so.

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