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Teams is dominating only because they bundle it with their other services. In my personal opinion, as someone who loved Skype before Microsoft got involved with it, Teams is complete trash, and impossible to work with in a business environment.

> Teams is dominating only because they bundle it with their other services.

This is a win from Microsoft's perspective. They don't have to have the best group messenger around, but having a significant office product being dominated by another company would be a massive risk to Microsoft, and Teams has prevented that.

So killing Skype was actually their goal? :(

The only people I know using Teams are the ones who are forced to by management fiat. I guess that's dominating, but not really in a positive way.

It was also good for the security state https://www.theregister.com/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_f...

And bad for users. Skype went downhill fast and Teams… well we all know what that’s like.

Seconded, teams winning is horrible for users in the long run (no competition allowed), but great for MS and IT managers.