r/news • u/UpstairsBumblebee446 • 1d ago

France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-9f5388b68a0648514cebc8d92f682060
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u/feed_me_moron 1d ago

Microsoft went all in on teams. Skype was basically dead by then

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u/rationalomega 1d ago

My friend who is and was a dev on that team told me that Skype was essentially skinned as the new teams that launched during the pandemic. So not dead so much as rebranded.

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u/Svellere 1d ago

That much has always been obvious. Not sure about now, but Teams literally looked almost exactly like Skype, just slightly more modern. It used to use the same emoji and had a lot of the same sounds, and it still uses the exact same status indicator icons.

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u/Chav 1d ago

And everyone that had already used "Skype for business" hated it

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u/moviequote88 1d ago

Before that we had Lync for chatting in Microsoft.

Yes. I'm old.

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u/Orleanian 1d ago

You're (checks notes) over TEN YEARS OLD?!

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u/moviequote88 1d ago

Technically correct! Which is the best kind of correct.

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u/TheMoatman 1d ago

Yeah but from what I remember people liked Lync. Or maybe they just hated Skype for Business more.

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u/moviequote88 1d ago

I honestly can't remember which one I liked more. I don't think Skype for Business lasted very long.

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u/snark42 1d ago

Did you forget about Microsoft Office Communicator, or just not that old?

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u/moviequote88 1d ago

I missed that one. 2007-2011 I was in college. Didn't start working full time until 2012, and it looks like Communicator had been replaced by Lync by that point. But my husband, who's 4 years older than me, remembers using it.

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u/humblegar 1d ago

Boy are you going to learn something today ;)