295: Skype follows Chime to the Grave

Welcome to episode 295 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! 

Welp, it’s sayonara to Skype – and time to finally make the move to Teams. Hashi has officially moved to IBM, GPT 4.5 is out and people have…thoughts. Plus, Google has the career coach you need to make all your dreams come true.*

*Assuming those dreams are reasonable in a volatile economy. 

Titles we almost went with this week:

• Someday we’ll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the cloud dreamers, and Me 
• Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer
• ☁️You may say I’m a cloud dreamer, but I’m not the only one
• May the skype shut down
• Q can tell me that my python skills are bad
• How many free code assistance does Ryan need to be a good developer: ALL OF THEM
• Oops honey I spent 1M dollars on oracle
• Latest Cloud Pod Reviews: “It’s a Lemon”

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General News 

01:04 On May 5, Microsoft’s Skype will shut down for good 

• In what we swear is the 9th death for Skype, Microsoft has announced that after 21 years (with 13 of those years under MS Control,) Skype will be no more. 
• For real this time. Really. 
• May 5th is the official last day of Skype, and they’ve indicated you can continue your calls and chats in Teams. 
• Starting now, you should be able to use your Skype login to get into Teams. 
• For those of you who do this, you’ll see all your existing contacts and chats in Teams. 
• Alternatively, you can export your Skype data, specifically contacts, call history and chats. 
• Current subscribers to Skype Premium services will remain active until the end, but you will not be able to sign up for Skype at this time. 
• Skype dial pad credits will remain active in the web interface and inside Teams after May 5th so you can finish using those credits. 

03:37 Matthew  – “I think there’s a lot of people and, you know, at least people I know in other countries to still use Skype, like pretty heavily for like cross country communications, things along those lines. So I think a lot of that is that there probably is still a good amount of people using it. And this is just, Hey, they’re trying to make it nicely...