Microsoft to shut down video-calling pioneer Skype

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Microsoft bites its Skype video-calling service after purchasing $ 8.5 billion, which depends on the telecommunications industry and the way to increase.

On Friday, Microsoft in Seattle has announced that it will retire in May service and start moving customers to the free version of its equivalent team application.

“Skype is an integral part of creating modern communications and to support in countless meaningful moments. Microsoft 365 Collaborative Services and Platform President Jeff.

Tetr added that the company understands that the move will be difficult for some customers.

Skype was a pioneer for Internet and video calls anywhere in the world, an innovation to recharge high rents for international calls.

“Skype was a revolutionary result of his time, and I will always be proud and grateful for the early team members and investors who have had an opportunity for us.

“Now Other Firms are Innovating in This Space To Offer New Services for a Whole New Generation, Many Of Whom Will Have No Idea of ​​How Expensive It Used to Be To Call Australia.”

Microsoft’s decision to close Skype comes to the release of his teams’ chat and group video calls seven years later, which offered a lot from Skype.

Business has struggled to compete, including Whatgram, Telegram and Wechat, while it fell on the way, when the similarities were able to raise the cameras demand on cameras.

Skype was founded in Luxembourg in 2003 by Zennström and Janus Friis, who manages a diverse group of European developers. Its technology has emerged from the Chaos of Peer-to-Peer Files, which was accused of easing the spread of music and movies in early 2000s.

Driving the wave of the adoption of early broadband protests quickly took tens of millions of users, as well as more web companies, including Google.

Skype has been purchased through the e-commerce platform eBay in 2005. In 2005, the Silicon Valley blockbuster deal for consumer Internet companies after a long suspension after Dotcom’s bust.

Two years later, but eBay was investing $ 1.4 billion, as the acquisition did not perform, as expected.

In 2009, the consortium of investors who purchased the company, including Andresen Hrovi and the silver lake. Then Microsoft acquired Skype in 2011, identification was founded in a consumer internet business when it collided with the rapid Google competition.

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer described Initial transaction As a “huge opportunity” company, voice and video calls provider services. “Microsoft and Skype will definitely set this future and what it really looks like,” he said.

“Skype used the broadband network and opened the mass demand for free voice calls, which never existed in the past,” said Benedict Evans, a technology analyst and a consultant.

“It was also a European history,” he said, as he was in greater demand than in America. But today the Internet call is integrated into dozens of programs. “It became common technology,” Evans said.

Microsoft has gradually reduced Skype services since the start of the teams and stopped for Skype business in 2017.

At the end of last year, Microsoft says that it will stop customers the opportunity to add loans to their accounts instead forcing them to use them monthly subscriptions.

Skype had more than 36 million users in 2023, when he last reported those numbers, in 2016 he fell from 300 million peaks. It has acquired business when it had 30 billion clients.

Microsoft says it will be skype customers to teams that will allow them to use their current credentials to enter into the ministry. They will also be able to export data, including conversations, contacts and call history, if they do not want to use the service.

Skype’s paid subscribers users will be able to use any loans until the end of their next renewal period.