Microsoft has definitely closed the text and voice messaging application Skype After more than 20 years active. The messaging application was born on August 29, 2003 in Tallin (Estonia), but his journey with Microsoft began in 2011, when he bought it for 8,500 million dollars.
As announced last February, the platform stopped working yesterday, May 5, but users will have more than two months to decide if they want to change to Microsoft Teams or simply export your history.
All to Teams
Microsoft’s bet is Teamsits integrated work application within Microsoft 365 and that provides the same advantages as Skype, but in a version adapted to the new times with meetings and teamwork modes.
Users, as the technological announced, can log in to Teams with their existing credentials and directly transfer Contacts and the chats towards the application.
Microsoft explained that there are data that will not be migrated to the free Teams model, such as chats between users and Accounts professionals y educational. Only the chats With free accounts they will remain. Nor will private conversations, nor the content of Copilot and the bots.
The data of Skype users will remain until January of the 2026 To give users to enter again and to proceed to the migration of conversations or review their history and account.
Plan B
Those who do not want to migrate to Teams will have the option of descargar Your messages and conversations. To export the data you have to enter this link and log in with the Skype account.
Once inside, you have to select the chats and files to download and To send application. There is also another option to download contacts.
Even below there is the option to delete all Skype data so that the account is drill forever.
Skype was a way of communicating for which a number of telfle fixed or mobile. These balances can be spent, as Skype explained in their X profile where they ensure that users can use them through this link or by Microsoft Teams Free
Changes
With this change, Microsoft will eliminate telephony parts that allow you to call numbers Telephone national or international normal; Skype characteristic that gained popularity in early 2000, since it allowed users to speak without paying a telephone company.
However, this function began to lose interest with the arrival of smartphones and applications such as FaceTime o WhatsApp. In addition, during the pandemic, consumers chose to use other applications, such as Zoom, to perform videoconferences, instead of Skype.
Microsoft will eliminate telephony that allow you to call national or international telephone numbers
Learning
“We have learned a lot from Skype over the years (and that information) we have applied it to Teams as we have evolved the teams in the last seven or eight years,” he said Jeff teperPresident of Applications and Collaborative Platforms of Microsoft 365, in an interview with CNBC.
«We feel that now is the time because we can be simpler for the market, for our customer base, and we can offer more innovation faster, simply concentrating on Teams»He added.
