Meme Girls - Ch. 77 - Discord vs. Skype

[MangaDex]

 

[justforthelulz]

I really thought Skype has already been killed off and replaced by MS Teams entirely, but I guess not yet.

 

[cybik]

@justforthelulz fun fact: in Linux, the Audio sink for Teams shows up in the equalizer app (pavucontrol) as skype.

With the icon.

 

[ahobaka]

What about Slack-Chan..

 

[Jeirien]

@justforthelulz In MS team sign up lead you to 3 option depending on purpose, school, business/company and for friends and family and if you select friends and family you be given a message that skype is best option for this.

 

[eng1]

Skype is used for business? I thought it and viber are mostly to avoid international calling. Zoom is the new craze in business.

 

[Tamerlane]

It's better than Zoom...

 

[HuevoPodrido]

Yeah, there is a whole plethora of programs used for this very purpose.
On another note, I'm a bit sad my favorite discord-chan is so obnoxious XD

 

[eetee]

@justforthelulz

I really thought Skype has already been killed off and replaced by MS Teams entirely, but I guess not yet.

Skype and Skype for Business are two completely separate products...
One was a formerly decent product before being bought by MS and the other is a product that built by MS from the beginning and used be called Lync...
Teams replaced the later (Skype for Business, a.k.a Lync) which is the product that is in the process of being killed off (it doesn't get any more updates).

 

[immortalartisan]

I feel personally attacked as someone who uses discord to do writing and organization of events.

Also who the fuck Uses Skype for work?

 

[Abetillo]

Hard to compare: they do very different things to different public. Discord vs Whatssapp or Whatssapp vs a mix of Skype and Facebook would be closer.

 

[Owyn]

tried getting discord voice chat to work on my phone - it didn't

 

[matosh]

Skype in corporate world is still extremely popular. I see it time to time with different companies and they even use it for basic chatting with coworkers as well as meetings/interviews. I have not seen much zoom tbh

 

[KazumiSangaku]

Doesn't Skype just come prepackaged with Windows now, making the "more people use me" argument the same as Internet Explorer's? In the end, more people using something doesn't mean it's better, other factors can but not just that.

@matosh While true, this usually comes down to the same reason a lot of businesses still prefer to use fax machines over email: not wanting to change things up and potentially complicate it since people would have to learn something new. If they're using Skype for Business, they're going to have to change to MS Teams or another service eventually because it's not getting updated anymore and errors and bugs are piling up.

 

[art17]

Now it is being killed by Teams, or is she evolving?

 

[Demomanowar]

@art17
Teams is litterally skype, it's nothing but a rebranding to appeal to the super duper professionals.

 

[AncientWatcher]

They made Skype-chan too sexy. @_@