So Long, Skype: Microsoft Will Shut Down The Venerable Video Calling Service
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Skype has struggled to compete with more contemporary video chat services like FaceTime and WhatsApp.
Millennials, pour one out for a digital pioneer.
Microsoft announced Friday it will be “retiring” Skype in May, nearly 22 years after the web-based phone and video calling service launched ― and helped popularize the idea of free, internet-based calls.
Current Skype users will be encouraged to migrate their data to Microsoft Teams, which has many of the same core features. Skype will officially sunset on May 5.
Microsoft Collaborative Apps and Platforms President Jeff Teper confirmed the news in a blog post, couching it in corporate speak as an attempt “to streamline our free consumer communications offerings so we can more easily adapt to customer needs.”
Teper acknowledged in a conversation with The Verge that Skype has struggled to compete with more contemporary video chat and communication services like FaceTime and WhatsApp.
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