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Comment by fredley | Hacker News Reader

That Skype for Business and Skype are two totally un-interoperable things is inexcusable.

They have been interoperable for quite a while now: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/skypeforbusiness/set-up-sky...

you can do one-on-ones but you cannot add skype free users to a skype for business conference call. We're using Skype for Business and this limitation is very frustrating.

On the bottom of your link:

  Not available with Skype contacts  
  ----------------------------------
  Multi-party IM conversations
  Audio and video conversations with three or more people
  Desktop and program sharing

So, what can we do (in general) to stop this sort of "making stuff shittier" effect that seems inherent in Western Capitalism. Very rich, very successful companies buy products and make them worse -- what's the patch for that? Is there anything beyond government regulation, or "consumer buying power"?

Are Skype for Business and Skype even related to each other? I always thought Skype for Business was just Lync with a Skype-like theme.

Seems like it, which is why they really shouldn't have renamed it.

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