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How Microsoft Let Skype Lose Out to Zoom
 [ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Zoom Video Communications Inc., maker of the ubiquitous videoconferencing tool that made a global pandemic less isolating, just reported another quarter of explosive growth. While its business may not continue to soar quite so much, Zoom is well positioned, appears to have a loyal fan base and continues to innovate.It has also achieved a rare corporate feat: It created a product popular enough to become a common verb. To "Zoom" now means to "chat by video" — in the same way that to "Google" is to search the web. Yet not so long ago, another product’s name stood for videoconferencing: Skype. Although Skype, launched in 2003, has been available nine years longer than Zoom and is owned by tech titan Microsoft Corp., Zoom has effectively left it in its dust. People don’t say "I’ll Skype you" as often as they say "I’ll Zoom you" anymore. How did that happen? Posted by: Fred 2021-06-06 |
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