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Microsoft is closing the London office that was home to part of its Skype development, causing the loss of 220 jobs. A further 300 people are losing their jobs in Redmond as Microsoft makes cuts that were previously announced in July. In a statement, the company said:
Microsoft is consolidating offices across London, moving employees to Microsoft’s new office at Paddington. As part of this effort, Microsoft reviewed some London-based roles and made the decision to unify some engineering positions, potentially putting at risk a number of globally focused Skype and Yammer roles. We are deeply committed to doing everything we can to help those impacted through this process. Microsoft will be entering into a consultation process and offer new opportunities, where possible.
I personally use Skype for 8 years now and the moment Microsoft got their hands on it, it all went down... Annoying bugs continuously appearing. Questionable design changes left and right. Drastic performance decrease, specially with the calling system (not even video calls). Removal of essential smileys and creation of unreasonable smiley codes 3 get's a cat while it's a cat face, :^) is apparently someone questioning something). And none the less their attempts to make it more business like which has backfire imo.
They're loosing people to other chat platforms left and right (WhatsApp, FB Messenger, Discord). So here is me wondering if this is the beginning of the end of the Skype Era here?
This shouldn't be a debate thread, I just wanted to give a heads up and I'm interested in you guys opinion.