Comment by iso1631
9 hours ago
Zoom came along with a securre video/voice chat, sure it's American, but it was by far the world leader
Microsoft then used its monopoly in office tools to push Teams to everyone
You can't compete with a trillion dollar company offering your product as a bundle your clients already pay for, even if your product is better. Even VC money runs out eventually
Zoom has long been the most unsecure video/voice application.
Remember how they installed an open web server on people's computers which could be accessed by anyone through the web?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55372493
To be fair, Microsoft already had Skype (for Business) and NetMeeting before that. It's not like they were new to that market. NetMeeting existed for more than a decade before Zoom even came into existence.
Zoom had COVID-19 play in it's favor, that's about it.
Skype for Business is the VoIP component for Teams, now. Sharepoint is the file service for Teams, too.
Basically, Teams is a front end for a bunch of old Mircosoft cloud services... plus chat. Actually more than one chat as teams channels chat is a separate tech stack from private chat. It used to be much more monlothic and then the Sharepoint people got their hooks into it.