Kelly Harris from San Jose tends to kiss the webcam, as she says to her farewell to Bian Johnson, her brother stationed in Japan, at the end of his phone call via Skype in San Jose, California on November 25, 2009.
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Skype is to log out.
Friday, Microsoft It announced that the 21 -year -old communication and correspondence service will be closed on May 5. The Skype user software encourages the deportation to the Free Teams app.
Skype acquired attention in 2000 to give people a way to speak without paying the phone, but he stumbled in the era of the mobile phone and did not enjoy a great return during the epidemic. Some people have forgotten that it is still available, due to many other options for chatting and calling.
“We have learned a lot from Skype over the years we put in teams where we have developed a difference over the past seven years to the past eight,” Jeff Tiber, head of Microsoft 365 Applications and platforms, said in an interview with CNBC. “But we felt now is the right time because we can be simpler for the market, for our customer base, and we can offer more innovation faster by focusing on the difference.”
During the next few days, Microsoft will start allowing people to log in to teams with Skype credentials, and Skype chats and chats will be transferred. People can also export their Skype data. The company will stop selling Skype monthly subscriptions, and users who have credits can continue to use them in the difference.
“It is clear that this is a great and great moment for us, and we are certainly very grateful in many ways,” Tiber said. “Skype was a pioneer in the web of the web for many people.”
It is one of the most permanent brands.
In 2003, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, who previously participated in establishing the file sharing program from counterpart to counterparts, Kazaa, Skype in Estonia with the help of a group of former classmates with zero experience in communications. Originally, Skype was a tool for people to connect each other online for free. Stop the strange name for “Sky Peer to Peer”, referring to the Internet online service protocol, VOIP, architecture.
Skype caught quickly. By 2004, there were 11 million registered users. by the time EBay website A Plan for purchase Skype Technologies SA compared to $ 2.6 billion in 2005, the number of users reached 54 million, and Skype expected $ 60 million of annual revenue, thanks to payments from those who want to contact mobile phones and land lines.
Mig Witman, CEO of EBY at the time, imagines that Skype will help people more quickly complete product sales, especially costly, by connecting buyers and sellers. EBY can get additional for such calls. Skype users all over the world can discover EBY and PayPalalso. The deal was completed after 29 days.
In the photo of this statement presented by EBY, the company's president and executive director, Meg Whitman, left, with Niklas Zennstrom, co -founder and CEO of Skype, Global Telecom Company online, in London on September 12, 2005. The Internet EBY announced today its intention, which is an online voice, for about $ 2.6.
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Under EBY, the Skype user number grew, crossing 405 million by 2008, and communications revenues increased. After that, Yumman resigned as an executive president, which led to the way for John Donahu, former Bain's CEO, who did not believe that EBay basic companies were benefiting from Skype treatment.
In 2009, the economy was in a recession, as EBay sales growth became negative, and the share price was less than it was since 2001. statement Which described the Skype application version for Apple IPhone, Donahoe announced that EBY will make a first general offer as part of the class.
But Ebay has never bid farewell to the public subscription. Four and a half months after the public subscription strategy was announced, EBY said it was Reach an agreement Skype sells a group of investors led by Silver Lake in a $ 2.75 billion deal. The online auction operator received a 30 % stake in Skype buyer. Under the investor group, Skype applied for public subscription, but this did not happen, too. Microsoft is over Get Skype In 2011 for $ 8.5 billion, with EBY received more than $ 2 billion.
“Microsoft and Skype together will bring together hundreds of millions, or Tony, billions of consumers, and enable them to communicate in new and interesting ways,” said Steve Palmer in A. press conferenceIn reference to the comments earlier at the event from the leader of Skype, Tony Bates. By this point, 170 million people were using Skype every month. Ballmer aims to integrate Skype with many Microsoft products, including Lync, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Phone and Xbox Video Game. Microsoft also got Skype the Azure cloud infrastructure.
Skype was unable to assemble a billion active users.
Steve Palmer, CEO of Microsoft, delivers to the left, CEO of Skype Tony Bates during a press conference on May 10, 2011 in San Francisco, California. Microsoft agreed to buy Skype for $ 8.5 billion.
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Apple The original IMessage and FaceTime were traction on iOS devices. In 2014, Facebook He bought WhatsApp, a mobile messaging application, and after months, users gained the ability to make cross -border calls. WhatsApp took off worldwide. And so did Tinetnet Wittat.
Meanwhile, Skype apply multiple redesign I face criticism From worshipers. In 2016, Microsoft I presented teams As a distinctive workshop on chat for institutions that have office production programs that will compete with Slack, which was at the time a startup.
When Kovid came and pushed people to work and study from home, EnlargementThat was originally visualized for commercial use, became a Favorite consumer To make video calls. People can also contact video through services from CiscoAnd Facebook and Google. Watch Skype the stumbling block, but Microsoft has placed major engineering resources behind teams for companies, governments and schools, and investment is fruitful. Analysts began to focus on the number of users of teams revealed by Microsoft, with a number of 320 million in 2023.
As for Skype, the current CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, has not mentioned it in a profit call since 2017.
In 2023, Microsoft said that Skype has 36 million Daily active users. This decreased from 40 million in March 2020. Tipper refused to talk about the number of people who use service today.
Tiber said: “I think good writing of the history of the thing would indicate the transformation of mobile and cloud devices as a major change in the communications category,” said Tiber.
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