Microsoft is ending the Skype the internet -based telephone and video service that was once the dominant way to stay connected in the mid -2000s.
Skype “will no longer be available” for use from May, confirmed the company at X, this Friday (20), informing users that its login information can be used in the free version of Microsoft Teams in the “next days”.
STARTING IN MAY 2025, SKYPE WILL IN THE LONGR BE AVAILABLE. OVER THE COMING DAYS YOU CAN SIGN IN TO MICROSOFT TEAMS FREE WITH YOU SKYPE ACCOUNT TO STAY CONNECTED WITH ALL YOU CHATS AND CONTACTS. THANK YOU FOR BEING PART OF SKYPE pic.twitter.com/ez2wjloq1a
– Skype (@skype) February 28, 2025
Skype’s shutdown occurs 14 years after Microsoft bought the service for $ 8.5 billion ($ 49,709,700,000.00), marking the largest acquisition of the company at the time. Microsoft has integrated the service on its other products, such as Office and Windows Phone mobile operating service.
The popularity of Skype has decreased in recent years, despite a pandemic leap that has raised other competing products, including Zoom, Google Meet and Cisco Webex. Skype also faced increasing competition in the last and a half decade of applications such as Apple’s facetime and goal WhatsApp. In addition, Microsoft has been heavily invested in Teams, which offers many of the same services.
Skype was released in 2003 in Estonia, and quickly took it as a way to make free calls to the world, a remarkable advantage considering that international calls in traditional telephones used to be expensive. The service quickly became popular, leading Ebay to buy it in 2005 for $ 2.6 billion. However, the partnership did not work, and Ebay sold its 65% stake in Skype to an investor group for $ 1.9 billion in 2009 before Microsoft bought it in 2011.
Microsoft did not return the request for comment CNN .
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