Obviously the consumer product we were all once familiar with wouldn't suffice in terms of features, but I never understood why they didn't stick with the Skype brand.
At the time of the pandemics, they decided to push the Teams brand instead of Skype because people in business all associated the brand "Skype" with a very low quality product.
From what I remember, the two Skypes were never fully interoperable.
I guess they wanted to start fresh rather than clean up that mess and didn't want a third incompatible Skype.
Both Google Meet and Zoom have both consumer and business users. Skype could have done the same if Microsoft didn't let it rot.
I'm not even sure when or why people (including myself) stopped using Skype... I used it constantly a decade or so a go both for business and personal. It's like Microsoft just forgot about it while other competitors entered the market and ate away at their market share.
A strong Skype brand and decent Skype for business product would have made so much sense. Regardless of quality, wherever I've worked Teams always felt like a soulless forced corporate product. The brand is almost universally hated, and for what? They had a great brand with Skype it was just neglected.