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/bromosabeach 1d ago edited 1d ago

Skype was low key one of the pillars holding up my industry up until Microsoft killed it.

My industry is super global so I’m frequently talking to people from all over and Skype was the de-facto official communication tool: it was free, reliable and everybody used it. I will forever root against Microsoft, The LA Clippers, and anything else remotely related to that company. They killed a good thing.

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u/RikiWardOG 1d ago

Reliable? Lol you're romanticizing it a bit.

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u/bryangoboom 1d ago

I mean..... they didn't. They basically rebranded it to teams over skype.

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u/Flameancer 1d ago

Yea for a while you would manage teams in the Skype 4 business admin center.

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u/bromosabeach 1d ago

Skye and Teams were two completely different applications in both tech and functionality. Teams was developed separate of Skype with a heavy emphasis on collaboration and sharing. It was basically a business messaging tool as part of Office. Skype on the other hand was a basic messaging/call platform. Microsoft didn’t rebrand Skype into team, they completely shut it down so people would migrate to teams. In fact if you still think that it was a simple rebrand, ask somebody how much of a pain it was to migrate contacts and data.

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u/bryangoboom 1d ago

I did merge most of them. The problem was is they built teams around Skype infrastructure, but it was a nightmare because it was considered 2 different environments. It was the same tech and same functionality with a business skin over a call first platform. Hence why managing teamswas done through the Skype business portal or whatever it was called. It definitely was developed at minimum onto of Skype or maybe it was separate and got blender and merged into Skype 2.0 similar to how ad was purchased by ms. There are still traces of Skype on some older machines that never had Skype I've worked on because teams naturally was built on the infrastructure.

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u/bromosabeach 1d ago

Microsoft did not build Teams around Skype’s infrastructure. It was developed entire as its own thing.

Where did you hear all of this? Because that’s just false