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Skype is an instant messaging app that provides online text message and video chat services. Users may transmit both text and video messages and may exchange digital documents such as images, text, and video. Skype allows video conference calls.
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Skype Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Tshepo Chaka
(@_tshepochaka) reported
from
Vereeniging, Gauteng
@naturally_tm 🤔 In the 2000s, Skype introduces 25-person video call with free download and Internet access. That was a game changer. The problem started when eBay acquired Skype for $ 2.6 Billion.
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Kiara
(@kiaraelluna) reported
from
Pasay City, National Capital Region
My daughter kept on interrupting my Zoom and Skype meetings w/ her orders such as “Mama, let’s catch” (play catch) “Mama, cry!” (Won’t stop until I make crying noises) “Mama, let’s spin around” “Mama help! Fire fire!” (Arte nya lang) #toddlerquarantine
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Tristan Acker-Vasquez
(@Wiggism) reported
from
San Bernardino, California
This is also a Skype/zoom joke. My brain is broken.
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Matt Haywood
(@TubeDrivingGod) reported
from
Watford, England
So Skype let me down today, interview has had to be rearranged.
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Eric Crichlow
(@MisterEGC) reported
from
San Tan Valley, Arizona
@iOSMikeySpikey My biggest problem with Skype right now is that when someone else is screensharing it randomly contracts the size of the image, cropping out about 10% of each side of their screen. Sometimes restarting it fixes the problem, sometimes it just keeps doing it.
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katie 🦥
(@kaaaaaaatie_) reported
from
Burnley, England
Had to turn off Skype with work as I broke down into angry tears lol, thank god it’s Friday
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Malume 🖤💚❤️
(@bozzie_t) reported
from
Edenburg, Gauteng
@KhayaJames I had to fake connection issues during my Skype call so I can go watch
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Tólá Quadri
(@tolajuwon) reported
from
Elgin, Illinois
@boludmaestro I think it's a lot of things. For one Skype has had many issues around performance. Not to mention the many wrong moves by Microsoft to try and market it as an Enterprise product. Enterprise products don't do well with everyday consumers.
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Eric Crichlow
(@MisterEGC) reported
from
San Tan Valley, Arizona
I generally avoid criticizing other developers or their work. But I make an exception in 3 cases: 1) Eclipse as the original Android IDE was terrible. 2) Skype screws up way too frequently 3) The Xcode team is criminally wasteful of resources and cleaning up obsolete files
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Amanda Konkin
(@akonkin) reported
from
Penticton, British Columbia
First @Skype made me cry by locking me out (which I'm still raging about) and then in the middle of figuring out internet connection issues my computer just decided to install updates... so yeah @Arkwulf and I will record @ThunderQuackPod tomorrow. #callit #techsupport
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Kin-Ming Looi
(@kmlooi) reported
from
Wellington City, Wellington
Never mind Hat Hair or Bed Hair, the new personal appearance issue seems to be Headset Hair from too many Zoom or Skype calls.
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Itay Komorovski 🇮🇱
(@call4peace) reported
from
Federal Way, Washington
@LinkedIn @MSFT_Business / @Microsoft product or service #Suck! Read the term before developing your #Business page or invest time on that unsocial platform. #SmallBiz #Entrepreneur #business @WSJ @business keep buying good #socialnetwork & killing it like they did with @Skype .
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Sanjoy K Roy
(@SanjoyRoyTWA) reported
from
Gurgaon, State of Haryāna
Waking up in an air conditioned bubble, reaching for a fresh glass of juice, settling down to a day of zoom/ skype is far removed from the reality out there for millions. Hungry Walking under the scorched sun Headed for home Desperate for relief! An unsympathetic state knows all!
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rich0131
(@rich0131) reported
from
Sheffield, England
Bloke on this Skype call sounds like he’s breathing down a cardboard tube. It’s very strange.
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Chris Wilson
(@crwilson_84) reported
from
Christchurch City, Canterbury
For context I was in the UK and the global financial crisis was just kicking off. Guess I was 25 then. The folks at the US forestry service I spoke to were so nice and keen, and had never done a Skype interview before! They wanted me for over a year and I just wasn't ready then.
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Martin Ferrini
(@mferrini) reported
from
Petaluma, California
@DavidDTSS That’s cause Microsoft’s institutional culture is Windows, Office & Azure centric, they have no taste or acumen for usability or design & corporate inertia evidently let Skype die on the vine, but Zoom is a terrible company & their product is a multiple vector security risk.
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Charlie Bloom
(@charliebeeman) reported
from
Bursledon, England
@cue_bono When they live in Durham, and the family lives in London. I should imagine the relationship is via Skype or similar. You’re clutching at straws. Cummings has made a catastrophic error of judgement. Johnson is defending the indefensible. Public opinion will not tolerate this.
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Anoup Yadav
(@Anoup6) reported
from
Gurgaon, State of Haryāna
@SkypeSupport In skype app conversation anybody can remove you and his name doesn't show. Is there a method to become host and converse or restrict participant. Need urgent help. +91 9818882496
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Gavin Dunaway
(@AdMonsterGavin) reported
from
Brooklyn, New York
Honestly, totally forgot. However, whenever I have a Skype problem, I do curse Microsoft.
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PKR | প্রশান্ত | پرشانتو
(@prasanto) reported
from
Gurgaon, State of Haryāna
@baxiabhishek @PranavDixit Hey Skype for Business is really behaving badly. Connect issues... I'm waiting in the lobby and it shows only me and all others find the same thing. Doesn't happen within the same company though. We've switched to Teams and Microsoft is urging biz users to switch.
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Proposition Joe
(@GSlate) reported
from
Chicago, Illinois
I got two Skype meetings today somebody help me please
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👏🕯Phakamani Xaba📿
(@SteadyLiving22) reported
from
Newlands West, Province of KwaZulu-Natal
@Ms_LebouxM @MthembuMabutho Thokoza Gogo. Within our organization we use Microsoft Teams and I personally prefer it over Zoom any day. I believe that Microsoft decided to market Teams more over than Skype hence why most people didn’t even mention Skype as a whole, there were a lot of issues with it
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Phil Worrell #Re365 Regarding365.com #M365May
(@Worrelpa) reported
from
Nyon, Canton de Vaud
@carlosmiguelsns A little story. When my son 14 started online schooling the teachers soon banned the use of chat in zoom and Skype. So what did the kids do They all hopped on discord where the teacher had no visibility. So the problem remained but was worse.
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Social Distancing CHAMP⚾️⚾️⚾️
(@snazzzyredhead) reported
from
Silver Spring, Maryland
Teleworking pet peeve - if my skype status says in a meeting, don’t message me asking me to troubleshoot your issue with One Drive.
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Janet Fernandez-Aspin
(@janfernz) reported
from
Westfield, State of Western Australia
Zoom, Hangout, Skype & similar platforms have become popular in education since CV19. In Malaysia:1)remotest areas,2)modern & 3)refugees children.1&2 get some help.3 is left to NGO because they are denied public schools. The private schools headed by some NGO’s are thriving.👏🏽
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Richard H Jean, Capt(Navy) ⚓🇨🇦,OMM, CD 🐢🦈
(@G_RequinBlanc) reported
from
Santiago, Región Metropolitana
@markrmcqueen @Microsoft @Skype It works but like all MS products the GUI is 10 years behind and prone to crashes. Zoom is fixing its security issues and is a better platform for VTC. Not a sub for Teams to be sure but superior for conferencing
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#Code4Life — The Führer
(@JoelFickson) reported
from
San Francisco, California
If your customers like your service, then that's it. You may have a trashy product in the views of people but if people buy into it, that's all that matters. Zoom had no chance against the likes of Skype but look at it now, it's a name we all utter.
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Conor Maher
(@conordmaher) reported
from
Lytchett Matravers, England
My first High Court CCMC by Skype today - a very odd experience indeed. Some technological teething problems, but otherwise rather successful!
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Chris Crumby
(@totspurs1981) reported
from
White Meadow Lake, New Jersey
@KaalTrader @DHeimbuchner @FIFAeWorldCup @EASPORTSFIFA Heard about this new video chat called Skype can you help me find it on my laptop
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Angel Blossom Pevensey ♀️💖💋
(@AngelPevensey) reported
from
Herrin, Illinois
@Skype I need some help there people that apperd on contact that I never added they started talking to me they show up as contact how do I remove people or make whole new skype under my Microsoft account .there people I removed years ago that are back even ones I blocked