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I can only speak for myself, but I've had co-workers who've corroborated my experiences:

* Slow startup, slow everything

* File uploads work maybe 50% of the time

* Calls are frequently dropped

* Sometimes will just flatout stop responding and crash in the middle of chat or a call.

* Resource hog

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No persistent chat, doesn't reliably report availability status / presences, tells you messages were sent when they weren't, messages don't always arrive on all devices, message with error that says "message couldn't be delivered" but they were delivered so you send them many many times...

the list goes on.

Oh man I completely forgot about the "message couldn't be delivered" error. I'll send a message to a coworker and it appears normally as if I sent it. Only 15 minutes later do I realize it never sent.

I have never had that experience with another chat application.

I wonder if those issues could be related to a poor network connection to the Skype servers, and maybe poor handling of lossy or high latency connections. I haven't seen any of these issues with Skype.

Perhaps, but I’ve never had these problems with Zoom or Discord or Slack or Jabber or anything else. So it’s a Skype problem as far as I’m concerned.

They could be but if network connection was a prime cause Microsoft would have highlighted that fact. Have they shown that is in fact the primary issue?

* File uploads work maybe 50% of the time

File uploads are blocked by company policy. And it fails with a cryptic error or no error at all when blocked, rather than giving a meaningful explanation.

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