skype vs zoom vs microsoft teams on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, zoom leads skype vs zoom vs microsoft teams with 59,832 mentions to skype’s 27,231, peaking in Mar 2020.

Mention-over-time for skype vs zoom vs microsoft teams, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

skype27,231 mentions, peak Apr 2011zoom59,832 mentions, peak Mar 2020microsoft teams19,453 mentions, peak Jan 2023

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How the lead changed hands

Video calling, dynasty to dynasty: Skype owns the 2010s, then Zoom spikes hard in the single March-2020 lockdown month while Microsoft Teams rides the same remote-work wave on Office's coattails.

The stories behind each line

Top “skype” stories

Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client 827 points · 2016
Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype 794 points · 2018
Microsoft is killing Skype 751 points · 2025
A day in the life of a startup founder 633 points · 2012

Top “zoom” stories

Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event 2,003 points · 2020
Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera 1,937 points · 2019
Zoom Acquires Keybase 1,879 points · 2020
Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says 1,616 points · 2020

Top “microsoft teams” stories

Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 1,436 points · 2024
Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams 1,307 points · 2020
Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? 862 points · 2022
Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, Linux 796 points · 2017

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