Microsoft responded by introducing Teams in 2016. In 2014 Slack came out with its team-communications software. In 2014, a few months after Nadella became CEO, Microsoft drew on the Skype name when it rebranded its Lync unified-communications software to Skype for Business. (In a 2019 blog post a Microsoft engineer wrote that Skype had reached “four billion total users, more than 300 million monthly active users, and more than 40 million concurrent users.”)īallmer’s successor, Satya Nadella, has moved Microsoft away from some consumer markets. Microsoft’s then-CEO, Steve Ballmer, said that the deal could bring together hundreds of millions, or even billions, of consumers. It also had a solid place in the tech-cultural zeitgeist as a tool for distant relatives to stay in touch.īy the fourth quarter of 2010 it had an average of 145 million monthly connected users, and Microsoft bought it from a private investor group in 2011 for $8.6 billion - its largest acquisition ever at the time. The company was founded in 2003 - a year before Facebook - and went through several owners while amassing a devoted core of users. Microsoft has brought out many Teams updates this year, including some, such as breakout rooms and support for up to 1,000 meeting participants, designed to help stave off newcomer Zoom, whose usage spikedduring the pandemic. The Skype iPhone app failed to crack the top 200 apps ranked on Apple’s App Store in August and September, according to data from app-analytics company AppAnnie, while Zoom for iPhone never left the top 20 and Google Meet was generally in the top 100. More recently, Skype has lagged behind its competitors. In April the company said Teams had amassed 75 million daily active users. But even at Microsoft, it’s not the star. Skype did get a boost from the virus. In March Microsoft said that Skype had 40 million daily active users, up 70 percent from the previous month.
Skype is still around - it’s just been upstaged. The absence of Skype in the implementation exemplifies the video-calling service’s diminishing presence in a year when competitors became more prominent than ever, as the coronavirus pandemic forced people to connect online.
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