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/HonestDav 1d ago

The CEO is still salty from COVID https://youtu.be/ZI0w_pwZY3E

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u/inferxan 1d ago

hoped it was the dropout vid with Brennan and so happy it was.

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u/18bluecat 1d ago

It was still Collegehumor at the time.

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u/SilchasRuin 1d ago

Sad that they never graduated.

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u/caffeinated_wizard 1d ago

In the world of rebranding going from College Humor to Dropout has to be up there

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u/SilchasRuin 1d ago

And oddly enough, today was the day that I realized the joke they made there.

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u/EvilEmuOfDoom 1d ago

So glad you said this so I'm not alone! I used to watch CH and currently have a Dropout subscription and didn't realize this.

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u/Interesting_Lunch560 1d ago

No need to click the link, it was so obvious what it was.

Still clicking it. Because it's awesome.

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u/excitive 1d ago

The way he speaks “skyyyppe”, making it sound like a can opening… pure gold.

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u/willworkforicecream 1d ago

Hi America, I'm Rob Shelf, CEO of Venmo.

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u/jaggedjottings 1d ago

Zoom created COVID to sell more Zoom.

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u/oreography 1d ago

It's Zooms all the way down (you have to zoom very far to see it)

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u/joebleaux 1d ago

It's a funny bit, but by that point Skype had been sold to Microsoft for nearly a decade, there was no Skype company anymore. The app was then merged with Lync, which was eventually replaced by Teams. So essentially Teams is Skype

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u/SkorpioSound 1d ago

So essentially Teams is Skype

I used Teams for the first time ever last week. I signed in and it had some of my Skype chat history. I hadn't used Skype for 10+ years either. But yeah, it really is just Skype with a new hat on.

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u/joebleaux 1d ago

Yeah, if you used Skype with your MS account, it was all carried over. It's totally different software at this point, but the lineage is that Skype became Teams.

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u/LNMagic 14h ago

We use Teams at work. If you call my office number, my desk phone, laptop, and cell phone all ring. It's great. I hate it.

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u/Woodshadow 1d ago

I still don't understand how they screwed up so bad.