Microsoft's years of missteps with Skype following its $8.5B acquisition have led to an opening for apps like Zoom and Houseparty to explode during the pandemic
Tom Warren / The Verge : Tweets: @major_grooves , @hkanji , @backlon , @jonathanmosen , and @tomwarren Tweets: Steven Renwick / @major_grooves : I'd say the reasons for Skype's decline are simpler. I used to have a Skype account. It was easy to log-in. When Microsoft forced everyone to have a MS account instead I found it very difficult to log-in to Skype again. I can't have been the only one https://www.theverge.com/... Hussein Kanji / @hkanji : Skype used to be this nice lightweight app that worked well. Like a decade ago. It has sucked for years https://www.theverge.com/... Dieter Bohn / @backlon : Ah yes, the thing that will bring Skype back from the brink of irrelevance after years of annoying app redesigns and missed opportunites is [checks tweet] ...an Electron app. https://twitter.com/... Jonathan Mosen / @jonathanmosen : Fully agree with this analysis. Skype is irrelevant now and I haven't used it for a long time. Teams is the future, dude. Microsoft's Skype struggles have created a Zoom moment https://www.theverge.com/... Tom Warren / @tomwarren : in my look back at Skype over the past 10 years, there's some news. Microsoft is ditching the UWP version of Skype and moving to an Electron app soon. Another move away from UWP at Microsoft https://www.theverge.com/...