That scared away a lot of the faithful.Then messaging took off again, with the like of Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp and iMessage. Then its modus operandi changed and gone was the peer-to-peer secure messaging, it now ran over central servers, it was also now part of Microsoft. The problem is brand recognition and prestige.Skype was a big name in the late 90s and early 2000s, but it was a consumer product, at a time when few consumers knew about or wanted such services, so it slumbered with a faithful band of users. Teams for consumer seems very odd right now and I don’t know how to even get my head around it. Is Skype dead? Is the $8 billion a write-off now? I don’t know. The product is there but it doesn’t seem to be doing as much as Skype. Microsoft hasn’t really made the move to Teams for consumers. I have not really tested this as a consumer. I guess I need to check if Teams interoperates with Skype. My wife has an iphone and we imessage or Skype. I am trying to get around how, as an individual, the concept of a “team” works. For the brand and as its primary consumer IM and video system. Once the shock is over, they can still do Skype. They are often surprised by the incoming call because they had forgotten that Skype starts automatically. While many people are now using Zoom, I will still Skype some people. I do use this rather than my landline when sitting at my PC.

However, at home my Microsoft 365 Family subscription gives me 60 minutes of Skype calls a month.

People used to centre things on Outlook but in 2021 it appears Teams is becoming the hub of activity with Outlook taking a step back to a degree. Now an apps platform for collaboration within the enterprise. I was looking at all the coverage of Windows 11 and a few things caught my eye.

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