[silcoon]

One of the best P2P software at the time. It was so simple and effective and allowed people to call real phones with Skype credit.

A genius product ripped my Microsoft. Have you used Microsoft Teams recently? Bad UI, hard to configure external hardware and good level of incompatibility, missing the good old "Echo / Sound Test Service". At a point I even installed Skype of my old Android but was sucking up too much battery.

[Marsymars]

Not just "of the time" - if you need to call international numbers as of 2025, there's no good replacement for Skype from earlier this year.

[hulitu]

> One of the best P2P software at the time.

and, after it was bought by Microsoft, the best spyware at the time. When it was running, the harddrive LED will be always on, just like network activity.