In 2025, Microsoft made a costly $8.5 billion decision. The full story is surprising, and the details reveal a major shift in ...

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Zoom Video Communications Inc., maker of the ubiquitous videoconferencing tool that made a global pandemic less isolating, just reported another quarter of explosive growth. While its business may not ...

Microsoft-owned Skype is literally gaining a zoom feature – not of course to be confused with Zoom, the company that eclipsed Skype as the verb for video calling during the past two years. Skype's new ...

Remote work has become the norm. However, the need for meetings and discussion of working issues has not disappeared. Therefore, an important question arose: which program is better. The leaders are ...

It should have been an easy win for Microsoft. When coronavirus sent entire offices home, Skype — which for nearly two decades has been the de facto app people use to keep in touch via video — ought ...