Microsoft, to close the video calling pioneer skype

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Microsoft, 14 years after purchasing the company for $ 8.5 billion, the Skype connects video call service to $ 4.5 billion and was hanged on the Internet communication pioneer.

Seattle-based Microsoft said he would go to service in May on Friday and will start to transfer customers to the free version of the application of equivalent teams.

“Skype has been an integral part of modern communication formation and countless meaningful moments.” Said Jeff Teacher, President of Microsoft 365 cooperation applications and platforms.

The TEPER added that the company realized that some customers would be difficult.

Skype was a pioneer in making telephone and video calls anywhere in the world, an income business model of the province industry for international calls has made a high level of loading a high level for international calls.

“Skype was a revolutionary product of the era and I’m always proud and grateful for the early team members and investors who won a chance for us,” said Niklas Zennström, co-founder of the European Tech Investor Atomico.

“Now other companies will not have any idea how long it is to call Australia to offer new services to a new generation in this place.”

The decision to close Microsoft’s Skype is coming after seven years in connection with the conversation and group video call application that offers the same features with Skype.

If you can capitalize a boom, including WhatsApp, Telegram and Wechat, including WhatsApp, Telegram and Wechat, whatsapp, telegram and WECHat fell to the side of the road.

Skype was established in 2003 by Zennström and Janus Friis, who led the various group of European developers in Luxembourg. His technology was made in the early 2000s from the chaotic world of sharing the peers, accused of simplification of music and films, music and films.

Riding on the early broadband adoption wave, the beginning attracted ten million users – also competes from larger internet companies, including Google.

Skype was taken to $ 2.6 billion in the transaction, which increased the sympathy of the Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley, after a long suspension after DotCOM bust in 2005.

Two years later, eBay took a $ 1.4 billion place to invest in the basis that the purchase was expected as expected.

In 2009, Andreessen Bought a consortium of investors, including Lake Horowitz and Silver. Then Microsoft acquired Skype in 2011 – in a suggestion to restore the speed of consumer internet work at a time when Google encounters fierce competition.

Microsoft’s former CEO Steve Ballmer explained 2011 Deal As a “great opportunity” for the company that offers services covering voice and video calls. “Microsoft and Skype will define this future together and really look like,” he said.

“Skype has benefited from broadband and opened a massive requirement for free voice calls before previously,” Benedict Evans, technological analysts and consultants.

“It was a European story,” he said, in part, there was more demand than the border. However, today the Internet call is integrated into dozens of applications. “It’s a common technology,” said Evans.

Microsoft has returned Skype’s services since the start of the teams and SKYPE was stopped for work in 2017.

Last year, last year, Microsoft said he could add a loan to customers’ accounts, contrary to use monthly subscribers.

Skype said that in 2023 more than 36 mn users, and the last time these figures fall from the top of 300 mn in 2016. He got a job when 30 mn clients.

Microsoft said that Skype customers will migrate to Skype customers to the teams that allow us to use their current credentials to access the service. If they do not want to use the service, they will be able to export information, including chat, contacts and call history.

Skype’s paid subscription users will be able to use any loan until the end of the next update period.