Microsoft is shutting down Skype after a 21-year run

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Microsoft to shut down Skype after buying it for $8.5 billion - Washington Examiner

Microsoft announced on Friday it will shutter the once-popular video calling service Skype in May and encouraged users to adopt a free version of its Teams service. The service will shut down roughly 14 years after Microsoft purchased it for $8.5 billion, after calling Skype “the leading Internet communications company” at the time of the acquisition. Microsoft said the move to retire Skype is being made to “streamline” its consumer offerings by…

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Skype Is Shutting Down at Microsoft

Microsoft announced plans to shut down Skype, the video calling platform that disrupted the landline industry after its launch in 2003, and will disable the service in May.

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Why Microsoft is killing off Skype and sending it to the tech graveyard

Better products like Teams and Zoom have usurped the innovations of the videoconferencing pioneer.

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Why Is Skype Shutting Down? Microsoft’s Reason Behind the Shutdown

Microsoft announced the and of an era with the announcement of Skype's imminent shutdown. Find out the reason behind the removal of the once-popular app.

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Microsoft is shutting down Skype after buying it 14 years ago for $8.5 billion

Microsoft will soon switch off Skype, a pioneering telecom and video call platform that emerged from the rubble of the dotcom era.

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Now, Satya Nadella's company will shut down the service that stood out as a VoIP calling platform. Goodbye Skype.