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After two decades, Microsoft "pulls the plug" on Skype

2025-02-28 16:36:14Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
After two decades, Microsoft "pulls the plug" on Skype
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Microsoft has decided to shut down Skype, the internet-based video-calling service that was once the dominant way to communicate in the mid-2000s.

Skype "will no longer be available" to use starting in May, the company confirmed on X, telling users that their login information can be used on the free tier of Microsoft Teams in the "coming days."

Skype's closure comes 14 years after Microsoft bought the service for $8.5 billion, marking the company's largest acquisition at the time. Microsoft integrated the service into its other products, such as Office and its Windows Phone mobile operating system.

Skype's popularity has waned in recent years, despite a pandemic-induced surge that gave rise to other competing products, including Zoom, Google Meet and Cisco WebEx. Skype has also faced increased competition over the past decade and a half from apps like Apple's FaceTime and Meta's WhatsApp. Microsoft has invested heavily in Teams, which offers many of the same services.

Skype was launched in 2003 in Estonia and was quickly seen as a way to make free calls around the world, an obvious benefit considering that international calls on traditional phones were once expensive. The service quickly became popular, leading eBay to acquire it in 2005 for $2.6 billion. However, the partnership didn't work out and eBay sold its 65% stake in Skype to a group of investors for $1.9 billion in 2009 before Microsoft bought it in 2011.


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