Microsoft officially gets rid of Skype As of May 5 and the promotion of their users once and for all choose commands. In its announcement, the company said that this step would allow him to “optimize our free proposals for consumers, so that we can easier to adapt to customer needs.”
Microsoft is also far from the subtle in its desire for teams and includes step -by -step instructions for migration. All users must do, this is to enter the system with their accounting data Skype, and their chats and contacts should appear. Skype commands and users will be able to communicate with each other until the latter is disconnected. Microsoft also published a whole YouTube video Illustrating how to cross user data. Nevertheless, anyone who does not want to move into teams can choose to export all their data and history until May 5.
News are hardly amazing, given the recent steps, such as Removing loans and phone numbers From Skype in favor of subscriptions. XDA Initially reported The ability to turn off Skype with reading the Skype code for Windows “Starting in May, Skype will no longer be available. Continue your calls and chats in teams. ” New users will not be able to access paid functions of Skype, while current subscribers can use loans and their plan until the end of their update.
Skype launched more than two decades ago in 2003. Microsoft purchased Skype for $ 8.5 billion in 2011 -Approximately at that time, and everyone I knew desperately looked for a strongly strong connection of Wi-Fi in their house to talk with friends (yes, there is a really difficult situation) and before the video chassis became the norm at work.
While Skype is actually not so much to differentiate it in a world filled with such as Zoom, Facetime and, yes, teams, it is still difficult to say goodbye to the service that ensured such excitement and connection. Skype felt like a new era of communication, and this will be missed.
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