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submitted 11 months 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 248 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (17 children)

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

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 48 points 11 months 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.

[–] 01189998819991197253 2 points 10 months ago

Actually, to Lync first. Then Teams. All three suck.

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