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After 23 years of promotion from the Internet call market, Microsoft has decided to withdraw the messaging application and active service calls on May 5 to bet on the teams. Skype users They have 10 weeks to decide what they want to do with their accountAlthough it is not clear how many people are affected.
Microsoft’s decision is no surprise for those who have followed Skype in recent years. The arrival of the teams in 2016 marked a new direction for Microsoft in the Cloud communication space, and many compared the teams with a Slack clone. However, the biggest ambition was to create a platform that would provide a space for collaboration and communication in a wide range of Microsoft and others applications.
A disappearance that does not surprise anyone
In recent years, Microsoft has gradually eliminated Skype for business and, in 2021, he has concluded these efforts. The same year, Microsoft selected teams as a favorite integrated communication application in Windows 11, relegating Skype to the background. NOW, Microsoft encourages users to go to teams for freewhich offers additional functions that are not available in Skype, such as integration with the calendar.
Skype migration to teams will be possible during the transition period, and users can download the team application and connect with their Skype identification information. All of its cats and contacts will be automatically migrated, and the Skype application will continue to work together until May 5, 2025. Users can also export their data, although they probably cannot do much with them in terms of importing into another place. In Techcrunch statements, Jeff Teper, president of Microsoft 365 collaborative applications and collaborative platforms, said:
We know that this is very important for our Skype users and we are very grateful for their support for Skype and for all the learning that the teams have taken into account in the past seven years. At this point, putting our full accent on the teams will allow us to give a simpler message and strengthen a faster innovation.
Users fall for free
The disappearance of Skype marks the end of a brand and a company that was one of the first major emerging technological companies to get out of Europe at the time of telephone access. Although news can be a setback for some users, Microsoft believes that consumers are now ready to transition to teams. The company analyzes the use of telephony in Skype for some time and saw that the models have changed and that the use has changed.
As for user figures, Skype marked the start of a new era in the internet -based communication, starting with the voice before stretching video and files. However, the arrival of smartphones and a series of new messaging applications have affected the number of Skype users over the years. In 2020, WhatsApp exceeded 2 billion users, while Skype had increased by 70% per month until reaching 40 million daily users in March 2020.
The most recent update provided by Microsoft was to go through a blog article published in early 2023, in which he announced integration between Skype and his Bing search engine, where he revealed that “more than 36 million people use Skype daily to connect via telephone calls and discussions” in the world. Although the growth of teams and Skype stagnation They are one of the reasons why Microsoft considers that this is now the right time to bet on the teams.
