Skype will ring for the last time on May 5, when the Microsoft owner retires on the two -decade -decades internet connection service that redefines how people connect across the border.
Office software giant said on Friday that the Skype turning off will help Microsoft focus on serving local teams by simplifying their communications offers.
Skype was founded in 2003, and Skype soon disrupted the ground lines industry in the early first decade of the twentieth century with its audio and video calls, making the company a family name of hundreds of millions of users at its peak. But the platform has struggled to keep up with easier competitors for use and more reliable like Zoom and Salesforce’s Slack in recent years, partly due to the basic Skype technology less suitable for the smartphone age.
When the epidemic and work of the house feed the need for commercial calls online, Microsoft clicked on a team by integrating it strongly with other Office applications to take advantage of corporate users, once a major base for Skype.
Online video connection was once Skype was close to Skype before it took over the likes of FaceTime, Zoom and Google Hangouts. Skype was an early example of a technical product that was very everywhere, and it was used as an act. “Skype” users were the same way they would go Google.
When Microsoft Skype bought in 2011 for $ 8.5 billion after Google and Facebook excel, her largest deal at that time, the service had about 150 million users per month; By 2020, this number decreased to about 23 million, despite short emissions during the epidemic.
Over the years, Microsoft has struggled to integrate Skype into its own set of tools and could not meet the moment when the company began to see a competitive from Apple’s FaceTime and various Google applications attempts. When Microsoft launched cooperation products teams in 2017 This quickly took priority.
“We are honored to be part of the trip,” Microsoft said on Friday. “Skype was an integral part of the formation of modern communications.”
To reduce the transition from the platform, its users will be able to log in to the teams for free on any subsidized device using their current credentials, with the chat and communications deported automatically.
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For some, it may be surprising that Skype was still running given the process of removing the platform that lasted years ago to the company. The launch of successful communication tools was a challenge for many large technology companies including Google. Now Skype will be placed for rest in the call tools cemetery alongside Duo and AOL Instant Messenger.
Microsoft refused to share the latest user numbers for Skype and said there will be no job cuts due to this step. He added that the teams have about 320 million active users per month.