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Users say goodbye to Video chat -Pioneer

Users say goodbye to Video chat -Pioneer

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All good things come to an end.

Microsoft pulls the plug for Skype on May 5, almost 15 years after the Tech juggernance acquired the VoIP European provider for Ebay's 8.5 billion US dollars.

Jeff Teper, President of Collaborative Apps and Platforms at Microsoft, announced in a blog post from February 28 that the company will retire to “rationalize our free offers for consumer communication so that we can adapt more easily to customer requirements”.

The software that “were most important with the people who are important in their life and work” enabled users to chat with everyone in the world free of charge via HD Voice or video call. Users can also send “text” messages via Skype.

“For many people, it was the first time that they ever used a video chat software and was honestly the market leader at the time,” said James Hennessy, editor at Australian News Outlet Capital letter, to ABC News Australia in February. “But since then we have been talking about the mid -2000s, it has gone through a number of acquisitions and a real loss of its strategic advantage.”

The death of Skype, like other telecommunications platforms, has previously caused a feeling of nostalgia among the current and former users. A similar situation developed in November 2023, when the founder of Omegle, Leif K-Brooks, announced that the video chat service, which randomly coincided together, would reduce a closure.

Here you will find what you should know about the death of Skype, including further information about why Microsoft decided to pull the plug.

What is Skype? And why does Microsoft complete it?

Skype is a VOIP or a voice -over internet protocol that enables users to make or receive audio/video calls via the Internet. Skype gave users the opportunity to buy or pay a subscription while they went.

“With Skype you can create great things with your working group, share a story or celebrate a birthday with friends and family and get to know a new ability or a new hobby with a teacher,” says a description on the Microsoft website. “It is free to use Skype – to send messages and get audio and video calls with groups of up to 100 people!”

The Telecommunications app had hundreds of millions of users in its heyday, but did not compete against other services such as Zoom and Microsoft teams.

Skype is migrated in teams, Microsoft's “Modern Communications and Collaboration Hub”, just like Hotmail in 2013.

“The time of this shift is driven by the essential progress and the takeover of Microsoft teams. In the past two years, the number of minutes that have been spent in meetings by consumers of teams rose by 4x,” said Microsoft in a statement from April 29. “And Teams Free offers many of the same core functions as Skype: 1: 1 calls, group calls, messaging and file approval as well as extended functions such as hosting meetings, management of calendars and the structure and accession communities -all free of charge.”

The statement continued: “By consolidating our efforts to concentrate on teams, we can offer the best possible communication and cooperation experience.”

What happens to your Skype account?

All contacts and chats from Skype are displayed automatically when users log in to the free version of teams with their Skype registration information. The “account” will continue to exist, but is folded in teams.

If you pay Skype customers with active subscriptions or Skype credits, you can continue to use them via the Skype Dial Pad after May 5, which is available via Skype on the web or the free version of the teams. Further information on the transition from Skype to the team can be found here.

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Some celebrate the retirement from Skype, others mourn

While some were enthusiastic about experiencing Skype's retirement, others were in their feelings when they learned the news.

Apart from that, anecdotes and reactions about Skype's inevitable death have appeared and circulating on social media in the past few days. (The Techcrunch publication also spoke.)

Here is what users, past and present have said about it:

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