“Starting in May 2025, Skype will no longer be available,“ said a post from Skype support on X, directing users to sign into Microsoft's Teams platform for further use of its services.
Over the years, and as internet speeds improved, Skype evolved to include video calls, instant messaging, file sharing, and group communication features.
Online auction site eBay acquired Skype in 2005 for approximately $2.6 billion, but the expected synergies never panned out, and in 2009, eBay sold a majority stake to a group of investors, who then sold it to Microsoft.
“We’ve learned a lot from Skype...as we’ve evolved Teams over the last seven to eight years,“ Jeff Teper, president of Microsoft 365 collaborative apps and platforms, told CNBC.
The name “Skype“ derived from “Sky peer-to-peer,“ the technology that was fundamental to Skype's original architecture.
The peer-to-peer aspect was crucial as it distributed the network demands across users' computers rather than relying solely on centralized servers, which was a key innovation that allowed Skype to scale rapidly during its early years.
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