Microsoft technology definitely closed the text and voice messaging application Skype This Monday, after more than 20 years active.
As announced last February, the platform stops working from 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.
From Microsoft they bet on the free version of Teams, which has practically the same functions that Skype had, to take over.
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Users, as announced by the technological, can log in to Teams with their existing credentials and the contacts and chats will be transferred to the application.
With this change, Microsoft will eliminate telephony parts that allow you to call telephone numbers ”normal‘national or international; 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 popularity with the arrival of smart mobile phones 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.
The messaging application that today said was born on August 29, 2003 in Tallín (Estonia), But his journey with Microsoft began in 2011, when he bought it for 8,500 million dollars.
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“We have learned a lot from Skype over the years (and that information) we have applied to Teams, as we have evolved the teams in the last seven or eight years,” said Jeff Teper, President of Applications and Collaborative Platforms of Microsoft 365, in an interview with CNBC.
But he added: “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.”
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