As we bid farewell to Skype, I’m thinking about how it lost the war on Zoom - and why it was all Microsoft’s fault.

At its peak, Skype was enormous. In 2009, The New York Times reported the app had 405 million users, and accounted for 8 ...

Microsoft released the Teams software in March 2017, six years after acquiring Skype. Similarly to its aforementioned rival Zoom, the 2020 pandemic propelled Microsoft Teams to become one of the ...

The service was also faced with an explosion of competition ... This should have been the time for Skype to shine, but instead, Zoom took over, becoming the go-to communications app.

But Skype’s user base has dwindled in recent years, as the app has faced growing competition from video calling and messaging alternatives such as Zoom, WhatsApp and Slack. The app went from roughly ...

However, Skype’s clientele dipped over the years as consumers sought to use other products that provided competition in the ... opted for services such as Zoom and Teams over Skype.