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Skype goes the path of Clippy, Netscape and Reb. Skype goes away after more than two decades.

On Friday, Microsoft announced that it will hire the online call program on May 5 and asks users to use teams instead.

Microsoft paid 8.5 billion US dollars for Skype in 2011, reported Bloomberg.

CNBC said Skype became more and more popular when people did not want to pay for calls, but as a mobile phones dominated, it took a back seat that even the Covid-19 and the pandemic implementation of video conferences did not arise that was in the foreground with the Pandemic block, but it was quite in the foreground, zoom, slack and other platforms.

In 2016, Skype had 300 million monthly users, but only 36 million in 2023, said Bloomberg.

Nevertheless, Microsoft said that it used Skype to develop teams in what it is now.

“We have learned a lot of Skype over the years that we have put in teams in the past seven to eight years,” Jeff Teper, President of Microsoft 365 Collaborative apps and platforms, told CNBC. “But we had the feeling that it was time because we can be easier for the market for our customer base and we can deliver more innovations faster if we concentrate on teams.”

Skype logins, chats and contacts will be ported on teams in the next few days, the company said in a blog post. The data can also be exported.

The monthly Skype subscriptions end and those with loan can be used in teams.

Microsoft will now focus on new functions for teams, e.g. B. Tools for artificial intelligence into the platform, Bloomberg reported.

This is not the first part of Skype who has been on the track.

Microsoft wrote down Skype for Business in 2021, about four years after the announcement that it would be closed, Tech Crunch reported. The teams replaced it with what Tech Crunch described as the “app of choice under Windows 11”.

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