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What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? (www.techspot.com)

submitted 2 months ago by kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] caoimhinr@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact any developer working with the api can tell you, there is a clear distinction between de voip bit and the meeting/chat bit. They haven't bothered rewriting or integrating it in any way so the Skype for business backend is still very much alive.

[–] greybeard@lemmy.one 21 points 2 months ago

Another fun fact: On the backend, Teams uses SharePoint to store files, and Exchange to store message. The whole M365 stack is a house of cards built on ancient tech. It's a wonder it works at all.