[probably_wrong]

Oh, look! It's rant time!

> Teams, which was added to Office 365 in 2017 for free, subsequently replaced Skype for Business and became popular during the pandemic due in part to its video conferencing.

Sorry, but no. Teams became popular during the pandemic because MS didn't give you a choice: with Skype deprecated and with your subscription paying for Teams whether you wanted or not, few IT managers would approve a second videoconference tool.

MS used the pandemic to force all of us into being beta testers for a crappy tool that consumed every resource it found, ranging from your computer's CPU up to your patience and will to live. So let's not pretend that Teams succeeded for any reasons other than monopoly power.

[cm2187]

To be honest skype for business was a piece of shit. Teams is an even bigger piece of shit. Don't think that made much difference to users.

[xxs]

'skype for business' was lync and had little to noting to do with skype, aside branding

[Rinzler89]

>skype for business

Because Skype for business(what a shit name, why not call it Skype Enterprise?) wasn't Skype at all, it was just Lync renamed, which was Office Communicator renamed, which was Windows Messenger renamed, which was Exchange 2000 Conferencing renamed.

It's like a Matroska doll of Scooby-Doo masks.