

In its glory days, Skype was the sixth most downloaded app in the decade between 20, but Redmond placed it in the corner after the development of Teams, banishing it to the Microsoft Store with the coming of Windows 11, where it is no longer a preinstalled app on the operating system. Onlookers might be forgiven for guessing the extended credit problems at Skype are a question of priorities.
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He added that there seemed to have been a "software update to the Skype stack somewhere, not sure if it's deep in their infra or just a service up top relating to billing." Reg reader Cooper got in touch to warn about the ongoing Skype credits problem, noting that the length of time engineers had been working on a fix was "much longer than usual SaaS tolerances." He added: "It looks like they released a new patch/version on the back end and blew up integration with Office 365 subscriptions and payments." While some can still use the platform to call friends and fam, others say they have had trouble spending or buying Skype credits and subscriptions, with some being charged twice, according to Microsoft, or multiple times, according to users in the Microsoft Support Community. This was not the case, unfortunately, for consumer users of Skype. #onedriveisdown the_m0sthappy January 2, 2023 I feel like I'm having an aneurysm with OneDrive being down, not a single file can be accessed and no support can be contacted.
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However, the cloud storage unit did recover on January 2 after a six-hour plus outage – albeit with users pretty steamed over being told they wouldn't be able to access their documents for hours and little available support. It wasn't the only breaking change for Microsofties in the New Year, after the team on Monday rolled back a "recently enabled" tweak "within a specific app responsible for regulating access to" OneDrive. Was completely un-necessary? Yes.Updated An issue with payments and credits for Skype subscribers remains ongoing, days after The Register was first informed by readers that it was broken. Were they complete and utter assholes for doing it? Absolutely. Was Yahoo legally obligated to not delete 22 years worth of user content in a single afternoon? No. The entireity of GeoCities was several terabytes (in 2009 that was small enough to fit a few hundred dollars worth of hard-drives). When Yahoo deleted GeoCities they managed to set the world record for the fastest destruction of the largest amount of user-created content. Just because users didn't pay you to act as a decent person doesn't mean you should treat their data as though it was worthless. The fact they didn't treat it with respect is an ethics problem. The data itself had worth to the users, but more importantly it is the reason why the company has a community. Then one day the company decides to delete the user's data without warning (or without their acknowledgement or consent). So the user gives them some of their data, and that overall builds the community around whatever the company is selling. A small company shows up and says "hey, look at this great 'experience' you can get if you just give us some of your data". Yes, you're correct that since I haven't paid them they currently have no legal obligation to treat my data with respect (usually because I've agreed to non-binding EULA that is vague enough to allow for most abuses).īut look at it from a user's perspective. Respectfully, I don't think that's the right question to be asking.
