Microsoft Makes It Official, Kills Skype

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The institution is, not surprisingly, encouraging users to move to Teams instead.

After announcing successful February that Skype would beryllium discontinued, Microsoft has officially killed disconnected nan once-popular communications platform. Users accessing any of Skype’s services will now beryllium encouraged to usage Microsoft Teams instead.

Microsoft primitively bought Skype for $8.5 cardinal successful 2011 to switch its ain Windows Live Messenger platform. Skype was founded successful 2003 by Niklas Zennström and Danish Janus Friis.

Skype quickly became known arsenic nan communications level that popularized video calls. But aft Microsoft’s purchase, nan package slow but surely mislaid users arsenic video calls became progressively disposable connected much platforms.

Microsoft started to merge Skype pinch Teams successful 2017, and nan attraction connected Teams further accelerated erstwhile distant moving became nan norm during nan COVID-19 pandemic.

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