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The maximum limit on simultaneous callers is also higher on Zoom, which lets you bring in 100 participants on the line at once.

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While Skype's Meet Now offers a grid view, Zoom lets you see up to 49 people at once, in pairs of large 5x5 grids (trying to figure it out? Here's how to see everyone on Zoom). Zoom is the more impressive voice chat service.

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If you need more than that, you'll have to upgrade to Zoom Pro, the $15 per month service with a 24-hour meeting cap. By contrast, Zoom group meetings, aka calls with 3 or more people, have a 40 minute time limit. When I'm looking to see my friends and family for a video call, I often need at least both my parents, or two friends, so I might opt for Skype Meet Now, which doesn't seem to have a time limit.

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Skype will even store a recording of your meeting for up to 30 days.Īnd if you don't want to download or install software - or simply cannot, as your company regulates anything you want to install - you can just use Skype Meet Now over the web (which Zoom also offers). Just keep in mind that this feature isn't available in the web app. This isn't as cool as having a custom background in Zoom, but it's still going to help you out on privacy, so your family or roommates don't have to be involved with your call as they walk by. Skype Meet Now also lets you blur your background. Skype became a standard for these kinds of calls because Skype is already everywhere, with apps for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS.

Well before quarantines and sheltering in place, I've used Skype for interviews for job applications, recording podcasts and other various needs. Thanks, all! Readers, what are your experiences with Skype and Zoom? Which one are you using? Why? Let me know below.Another reason people might prefer Skype for their video conference calls is that they already have it - whereas Zoom may be new for a lot of folks. And when that happens, I'm instantly sent spam links by people I haven't thought about or spoken to in years who've clearly had forgotten accounts hacked."Įileen Brown: "The major reason that Zoom has such an advantage is all you need is an email address to join the call - guests never need to create an account - unlike Skype." Now they're working to get Skype consumer federated with Teams.They've been all over the map and the lack of management and direction has resulted in a once-promising service that's stagnated and is losing mind-share and market-share."ĭanny Palmer: "I only log into Skype once in a blue moon. Then they did too much with no solid strategy. Mary Jo Foley: "Microsoft did too little too late with Skype.

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This hasn't been helped any by its badly handled shift from a wonky peer-to-peer design to its current server-based model."Ĭatalin Cimpanu: "Eternally buggy! Even on mobile - where a major bug (re: sending images) remained unfixed in the Android app for an entire year." Vaughan-Nichols: "I also found Skype to be eternally buggy.

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Another Microsoft side effect: updating without asking just minutes before your call, typically to an even slower, more bloated version."Ĭhris Matyszczyk: "Skype was unbearably buggy and full of spam. A lot of people jumped ship the moment Microsoft acquired it. May have to do with the fact they made it into bloatware. George Anadiotis: "Skype's call quality deteriorated over the years. Skype's stagnation as a product opened the market for others." Skype had changing priorities and product visions under three different owners in six years. The company was sold to eBay in 2005, then spun off to private equity and ultimately acquired by Microsoft. Larry Dignan: "Skype was hampered by corporate machinations. There's nothing to manage or worry about random people adding you as a friend." Send a link, participants join, hang up when you're done. Signed out, uninstalled, and never went back. That's also when the spam and scams started. Jason Cipriani: "I quit using Skype years ago after it turned into a messaging, VoIP and video chat app. I asked my colleagues at ZDNet and here's what they said: What did Skype do wrong to give Zoom such an advantage?

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That's a long path for a service, and users, along with their expectations, have changed a lot in those 16 years. A few people also mentioned the idea that Skype was a service before its time, and since its release in 2003, it has been through a lot of hands and shifted from a hybrid peer-to-peer service to a client-server service before ending up in Microsoft's hands.