Before the current coronavirus crisis, Skype appeared to be one of Microsoft’s numerous wasted investments. Purchased in October 2011 for $8.5 billion, the product has failed to keep up with messaging rivals and suffered from numerous unwelcome changes in direction. Microsoft’s solution was to integrate Skype for business’s functionality into Microsoft Teams, which saw a […]
Before the current coronavirus crisis, Skype appeared to be one of Microsoft’s numerous wasted investments. Purchased in October 2011 for $8.5 billion, the product has failed to keep up with messaging rivals and suffered from numerous unwelcome changes in direction.
Microsoft’s solution was to integrate Skype for business’s functionality into Microsoft Teams, which saw a meteoric rise on the demand for a business-focussed video conferencing solution.
You could be forgiven for thinking Skype is on its way out, especially with Teams for Life coming to address the consumer market, but Microsoft has denied this is the case.
