Actually the move had way more hidden interests , I think. I'm one of the migrated
people and now I painfully realized that to add new people into chatrooms that I had
ongoing, is a very complicate and painful process easily prone to failure UNLESS you move
to a paid tier.
Even the invite link you give around to join a room, is effectively not working.
So you need to add the contact you want in, because searching for registered users not in
your contacts is crippled in free mode, but you cannot add to google since they
discontinued the syncing ... and once you add to Hotmail it may take up to 24h to sync
"Wonderful" experience, that's motivating my group to migrate fully to
telegram
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Katz via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2025 1:58 AM
To: Murray McCullough via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Cc: Mike Katz <bitwiz(a)12bitsbest.com>
Subject: [cctalk] Re: Skype
It's just another case of how long should a company maintain older infrastructure in
the face of new technologies and systems.
The conversion to Teams was relatively painless so it's not much of a big deal for
many.
There are also many alternatives to Skype if Teams doesn't work for you.
I am not a fan of Microsoft at all but how long can we expect them to pay to keep old
servers up and running?
Try to find 10 year old DDR2 RAM or a DVD Blou-Ray writer (or reader). Even the automotive
industry isn't required to maintain a parts inventory for more than 10 years.
On 5/12/2025 6:41 PM, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
It is with some sadness to here of Skype's demise
even though MS owned it.
It's not necessarily on topic of 'ancient' personal computing but then
again maybe it is!
Happy computing,
Murray 🙂