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submitted 1 month ago by kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The bottom of the article links to the history (individual features) of other IM programs from that era as well like ICQ and Yahoo Messenger.

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[–] korthrun@lemmy.sdf.org 249 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (17 children)

Microsoft pivoted to Skype. Saved you a click and reading about 1000 words.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 49 points 4 weeks ago (15 children)

Which Microsoft then shit all over (to be fair, Skype started that process even before MS bought them) and eventually renamed it to Microsoft Teams.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 38 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

And for a while, there was also Skype for Business (formerly Lync (formerly Communicator)).

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

The process was skype.exe, so Lync was Skype with a skin.

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