Friday, August 17, 2007
Skype: I took a deep breath and now I'm blue in the face
When it starts, Skype warns: Take a deep breath. I've often wondered why. Now I know - because you need a massive amount of patience to keep on using a VoIP system that's been crippled by an outage for around 36 hours.
Maybe Google Talk has improved since I last tried it around 18 months ago. If it actually works, it'll be better than Skype. This probably isn't Skype's death knell but if the outage goes on much longer, it will be a reminder to millions of people to look elsewhere for their PC-based VoIP telephony. Remember Napster? Me too - it was the soaraway leader in its field once, but I haven't used it for years. In fact I saw the icon on the desktop of an HP machine the other day and this reminded me that Napster still existed.
It's tough at the top and the software industry is fickle.
# posted by Nesjo : 10:14
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