Microsoft, the company that owns Skype, said that the video-calling service, which has hundreds of millions of users, would be shutting down in May. It used to be one of the most well-known websites in the world, enabling users to make free computer voice conversations to friends and family throughout the world.
Although Skype wasn’t the first or only company to offer this service, it helped popularize the idea by enabling free computer-to-computer calls. According to a Skype announcement on X, users can utilize their account to log into Microsoft Teams and maintain access to all of their contacts and chats.
The computer giant purchased Skype in 2011 for $8.5 billion (£6.1 billion), its largest acquisition to date. Skype was first published in 2003. As previously described, Skype became linked with Microsoft’s other products, including Xbox and Windows devices.
When the website experienced a two-day worldwide outage in December 2010, tech industry pundit Om Malik referred to it as one of the “key applications of the modern web.” Both current and former Skype users shared their recollections of using the video call service and its influence on their lives after hearing that it would soon be shut down.
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