02-28-2025, 05:44 PM
Microsoft had only just begun testing Teams when Covid hit. Microsoft had a broken version of Teams, Google had Meet, Apple had Facetime, and Zoom was just rolling into the market. Zoom was a FAR easier to use product, though initially far less secure. Does anyone remember joining Zoom meetings and having random people drop in to crash the meeting? Zoom had a single app with a single function to work on. Microsoft was trying to integrate Teams into a couple dozen separate apps. It was initially a mess with authentication errors, crashes, and just generally confusing to use. Google Meet was actually probably the better application, but Zoom captured the attention and developed momentum. Initially Teams and Skype were nearly the same applications.