Microsoft announced on Friday that the Skype call and messages app is closing in May. Skype was launched in 2003, being purchased by Microsoft in 2011, with $ 8.5 billion.
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In the context of Skype closure, Microsoft recommends users to move to the free app launched by them, Teams, writes BBC. Teams has become very popular in pandemic, as most companies and people have moved their activity on this platform.
Skype, who had hundreds of millions of users, became highly used because he offered users, for free, the opportunity to call their friends or family.
In December 2010, Om Malik, an Indian-American writer in the field of technology, called Skype “the key application of the modern web”, when the site underwent a two-day global interruption.
When applications like WhatsApp, Facebook or Messenger have become popularity, Skype has started to become less and less used.
In 2017, Microsoft tried to renew Skype, adding some functions that look great with the Snapchat rival. Users were not satisfied.
“People are disturbed by this Skype app update because they remedy something that has never been broken“Said Rachel Kaser, a reporter at The Next Web, at the time.
In 2021, rumors began to appear about the end of which will come on Skype. When the Windows 11 operating system has been announced, Microsoft informed that Teams will be integrated, while Skype, for the first time in many years, was not.
