Skype will take your final call (and video) on May 5
Microsoft officially gets rid of Skype Since May 5, encouraging their users to choose teams once and for all. In its message, the company said this move would allow it to “optimize our free users’ communications proposals so that we can easily adapt to customer needs.”
Microsoft is also far from its subtle impetus to the teams and includes step -by -step migration instructions. All users have to do is enter with their Skype identification data and their chats and contacts must appear. Skype teams and users will be able to communicate with each other until the latter is excluded. Microsoft also publishes a whole YouTube video Illustration of how to pass user data. However, anyone who does not want to move to teams can choose to export all their data and history before May 5.
The news is hardly surprising given the last moves as Remove loans and telephone numbers by Skype in favor of subscriptions. Xda originally reported The ability to turn off Skype, with Skype to check the Windows code, “From May, start, Skype will no longer be available. Continue your calls and chats in teams. ” New users will not have access to Skype paid features, while current subscribers can use loans and their plan until the end of the renewal period.
Skype launched more than two decades ago in 2003. Microsoft acquired Skype for $ 8.5 billion in 2011 -Exactly at the time, and everyone I knew was desperately looking for a strong enough Wi-Fi connection in their home to talk to friends (yes, a really difficult situation here) and before the video parts would become the norm of work.
While Skype doesn’t really distinguish it into a world filled with the likes of Zoom, FaceTime and, yes, teams, it is still difficult to say goodbye to a service that provides such excitement and connection. Skype felt like a new era of communication and it would be missed.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/skype-will-take-its-final-curtain- and video-may-5-144256172.html
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