Skype has lost the race – and its never-ending start-ups may be a contributing factor in the reason. Yet not so long ago, another product’s name stood for videoconferencing: Skype.” To “Zoom” now means to “chat by video” - in the same way that to “Google” is to search the web. An opinion piece published in Bloomberg last week titled “How Microsoft Let Skype Lose Out to Zoom” talked about how Zoom “achieved a rare corporate feat: It created a product popular enough to become a common verb. While Zoom calls and Google Meets have become a part of our everyday life now, Skype, the original video-calling platform, invented over a decade before the pandemic isn’t on the list. Tools like video-calling apps, group platforms for work like Slack, Zoom, have become everyday common factors in our life, far from no options when the pandemic started in March 2020. It’s been a year of work-from-home and remotely adjusting to the pandemic work-life – one that is no longer in offices.

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