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It’s kind of incredible, Skype had a 10 year head-start and still lost. But really, much of Teams was built upon Skype, and that is the dominant market player
by Arbortheus 4y ago
It’s kind of incredible, Skype had a 10 year head-start and still lost.
But really, much of Teams was built upon Skype, and that is the dominant market player by a long shot.
- pier25 4y agoTeams is dominant? Do you have any source on that?
- MiyamotoAkira 4y agoThis graph did the rounds on Friday, comparing it to Slack on daily users: https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1558054445237149697?s=20&t=QzuciZmJ0MN9-SCZa58dWQ https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1558054445237149697?... The graph doesn't include Zoom or Google Meet, so is not a perfect representation.
- int_19h 4y agoWhy do you think that Teams was built on Skype? Technologically, even the stack is completely different.
- mnw21cam 4y agoUntil fairly recently, if you opened the PulseAudio volume control app while in a Teams call, the volume slider for the call would be labelled as Skype. That's a name that the sound-producing software hands to PulseAudio, and is reasonable evidence that Microsoft basically ripped the back-end out of Skype and shoved it into Teams and forgot to change what it thought its name was.