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Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams launched in 2017 as part of the Microsoft 365 (then Office 365) productivity suite, built to combine video conferencing, chat, and file collaboration in a single application deeply integrated with Microsoft's existing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint software. The platform saw a massive surge in adoption during the 2020 pandemic, benefiting significantly from its bundled inclusion in Microsoft 365 business subscriptions that many companies already held, giving Teams a built-in distribution advantage over standalone video conferencing competitors. Microsoft positioned Teams as a direct successor to its earlier Skype for Business enterprise product, eventually retiring Skype for Business entirely in favor of Teams, and the platform has continued expanding into broader workplace collaboration features beyond pure video calling. Microsoft Teams's combination of its deep integration with the broader Microsoft 365 productivity suite and its pandemic-era surge fueled by existing enterprise licensing has made it one of the most widely used video conferencing platforms in corporate environments.
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Skype
Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the same entrepreneurs behind the earlier peer-to-peer file-sharing service Kazaa, and it became one of the first widely popular consumer applications offering free voice and video calls over the internet. Skype's early peer-to-peer technology architecture, routing call data directly between users' computers rather than through centralized company servers, was a genuinely novel approach at the time that helped the service scale efficiently to millions of simultaneous users worldwide. Microsoft acquired Skype in 2011 for $8.5 billion, one of Microsoft's largest acquisitions at the time, and the company eventually shifted focus toward its newer Teams product for both business and consumer video calling, officially retiring the original Skype consumer app in 2025. Skype's combination of its pioneering peer-to-peer internet calling technology and its historic role as one of the first mainstream consumer video calling applications has made it one of the most foundational products in the history of internet communication.
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