Skype' s not so lively 5th birthday announces the IM wars. And maybe Maybe the birthday is more like a funeral...

Skype with it's Five Years and Counting has a troubled history, that is for sure. All major founders and hard core techies (the soul of Skype) left (or were kicked out), the Ebay funding party has expressed doubt on it's investment multiple times, but they are kind of stuck with it... Imagine getting rid of Skype alltogether and imagine if Skype would end up in the hands of Google... Just imagine.

Maybe the birthday is more like a funeral...We need more viral online Discussion about “Skype's 5 years of disruption ...

So with all those troubled and obfuscated issues, you should not be surprised to read things like CEO of Skype blows his trumpet when there is not reason. on the occassion of Skype Turning Five years. In Happy 5th Birthday Skype! it is mentioned that VoIP has because a household  name.

My concern or call it impression is that Skype is becoming the ICQ of the IM systems, or worse, the Nescape (remember the browser war and remember who won...) among the instant messaging companies.

Already "IE8 Beta 2 displays a compatibility warning with certain versions of the Skype add-in" ... source. Microsoft: No more.

Till today it is not explicitely clear weather the backdoor of Skype is present. Nobody at the Skype is allowed to make any statement.

This is an obfuscated birthday of a trouble family... I would eat the cake in silence... instead of writing about Five Years of Wow , I would seriously worry about where Skype will be Five Years from now. The IM wars have started. Soon more. Time will tell. The first thing to look at properly would be understanding that Skype for Business services are not the same as Personal Skype . Business will have different requirements... I am referring here to leaving Skype branding (on this level) in the hands of the hardware boxmovers.... Never heard of SLA an the creation of proper business channels ? Till today Skype is the still the VoIP Global Telephony company without a proper helpdesk, without proper business reseller channels and they never pickup their phone. Is this what Skype has become ?

Maybe Skype is Killing Itself after Skype's 5 Years of Disruption. In my opion the breakdown of failed projects has already started with Skype axing Skypecasts. Maybe there are some alternatives to Skypecasts..

 

So while Skype turns 5 years old, one should wonder what will future hold.

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