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Por Jordan Valinsky, CNN Microsoft está cerrando Skype, el servicio de llamadas telefónicas y videollamadas por Internet que fue la forma dominante de mantenerse conectado a mediados de la década del

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Do you remember Skype? The internet-based phone and video service that was once the dominant way of staying connected in the mid-2000s is logging off for good in May. Microsoft bought the service 14 years ago for a whopping $8.

The tech giant said Friday it will retire Skype in May and shift some of its services to Microsoft Teams application.

Microsoft Corp. said on Friday that it was killing off Skype, one of the first services to offer phone and video calls over the internet. Skype was a vestige of the early-2000s tech boom and bust, and its current users will be transitioned over to free accounts on Microsoft Teams — the company’s preferred videoconferencing and workplace-communications tool,

Microsoft is shutting down Skype, the service that once helped put video calling on the map. The company announced on Friday it is retiring Skype in May as part of a broader effort to focus on Microsoft Teams,

Microsoft will soon switch off Skype, a pioneering telecom and video call platform that emerged from the rubble of the dotcom era.

Skype will ring for the last time on May 5 as owner Microsoft retires the two-decade-old internet calling service that redefined how people connect across borders.

Skype was an a pioneer in live video-calling that was bought by Microsoft in 2011, but was later overtaken by competing services.

Skype never really made sense in a world where Microsoft wants everyone to use Teams. I don’t know for sure how this sort of thing works, but I imagine there was a meeting once where someone convinced Microsoft’s CEO at the time,

Microsoft announced Friday it will be “retiring” Skype in May, nearly 22 years after the web-based phone and video calling service launched ― and helped popularize the idea of free, internet-based calls.