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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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[–] orclev@lemmy.world 49 points 3 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 3 weeks ago (8 children)

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

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Yeah that was part of the brand reshuffling they did to obfuscate things. Lync was their shitty chat app they tried to convince businesses to use that everyone hated. They bought Skype, renamed it to Microsoft Teams, renamed Lync to Skype for Business, and killed MSN Messenger. When people still didn't want to use ~~Lync~~Skype for Business, then they killed that as well, and now it's just MS Teams.

[–] ShunkW@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Lync was such garbage. I used that for years at one of my old jobs. Teams just feels like discord with extra shittiness lol.

The worst part is that they had developed an in-house app that worked amazing but abandoned it for teams.

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