Unpopular opinion: The Skype brand was critical to getting decent uptake in Lync (rebranded as Skype For Business) and these users were migrated across to Micro

Unpopular opinion: The Skype brand was critical to getting decent uptake in Lync (rebranded as Skype For Business) and these users were migrated across to Microsoft Teams which has been overwhelmingly popular (at least in the UK it’s the de-facto conference app). It’s not totally clear to me that Microsoft would actually be doing well in the space without the Skype aquisition, but considering they bought Skype for 8.5bn and Zoom now has a market cap of 100bn my assumption is that Teams is valuable and maybe the price was worth paying.