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Re:The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root ... by Arbortheus on Saturday August 13, 2022 @05:53AM (#32448336)
It’s kind of incredible, Skype had a 10 year head-start and still lost.

But really, much of Teams was built upon Skype, and that is the dominant market player by a long shot.

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Re:The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root ... by int_19h on Saturday August 13, 2022 @07:33PM (#32454788)
Why do you think that Teams was built on Skype? Technologically, even the stack is completely different.
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Re:The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root ... by mnw21cam on Sunday August 14, 2022 @07:57AM (#32458518)
Until fairly recently, if you opened the PulseAudio volume control app while in a Teams call, the volume slider for the call would be labelled as Skype. That's a name that the sound-producing software hands to PulseAudio, and is reasonable evidence that Microsoft basically ripped the back-end out of Skype and shoved it into Teams and forgot to change what it thought its name was.
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Re:The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root ... by pier25 on Saturday August 13, 2022 @10:06AM (#32449993)
Teams is dominant?

Do you have any source on that?

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Re:The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root ... by MiyamotoAkira on Sunday August 14, 2022 @02:52AM (#32457059)
This graph did the rounds on Friday, comparing it to Slack on daily users:

https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1558054445237149697?...

The graph doesn't include Zoom or Google Meet, so is not a perfect representation.

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