100 Activision Blizzard Has Been Acquired by Microsoft for $70 Billion (news.xbox.com) posted 2 years ago by Subjector 2 years ago by Subjector +100 / -0 93 comments share 93 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Not for Microsoft.
Skype was a colossal failure. Rare never gets used.
Skype was acquired to make Teams. Microsoft Office was always more valuable than Skype.
Zoom absolutely killed Skype, rolling it into Teams was purely to save some returns on their investment.
They rolled out teams before zoom caught on during lockdowns
'caught on' was pushed by the ceos and media
zoom only took off because it's owned by china and they got favorable treatment.
there were dozens of other major players in the space, and google meet does literally everything zoom does, even voice calls into big meetings.
I believe Teams is something corps actually pay for. I've seen it used at work several places.
Zoom is more popular among the free crowd...
I prefer skype, whatever zoom does to audio it reminds me of those "play it backwards and sounds like the devil" kind of things.
zoom has no security.
Powerpoint, Visio and Hotmail were all successful acquisitions for Microsoft, and GitHub and LinkedIn may still prove to be.
They had Minecraft. I think that turned a profit for them.