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It’s the extremity of an epoch for Microsoft Skype.
The video conferencing app officially unopen down connected Monday, marking the extremity of its agelong run.
In a station connected Microsoft’s blog backmost successful February, the institution said Skype volition beryllium retired successful and volition absorption connected Microsoft Teams.
Skype users volition beryllium capable to determination to Microsoft Teams for escaped by logging successful to Teams with their Skype account.
The institution said Skype chats volition look connected their Teams relationship and that the determination to discontinue the programme reflects Microsoft’s strategy to prioritize Teams and streamline its main communications app against competitors.
Skype was archetypal launched successful 2003 arsenic a mode to marque escaped calls worldwide.
It was purchased by eBay successful 2005 and aboriginal purchased by Microsoft successful 2011.
In the past 10 years, Skype has faced contention from akin products, including WhatsApp, Zoom, Apple Facetime and Cisco WebEx.
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