The iconic application disappears from the market today. She was with us for 22 years
After almost 22 years of operation, Skype will be turned off today. The iconic messenger has lost popularity in recent years, and its owners focused on the development of another application.
On May 5, it is the last day of the first application, which enabled free phone calls via the Internet, and then video. The Skype platform was launched at the end of August 2003. In splendor it had over 300 million users. It is estimated that there are ten times less today. The popularity of the messenger has dropped significantly over the past years, and the increase in interest in Pandemic has proved to be temporary.
Skype disappears from the market. Microsoft puts on teams
Why did the platform lose its importance in the era of the popularity of the video circuits? In 2011, Microsoft became its owner (he paid about USD 8.5 billion, piercing Google and Facebook offers), which – as Rzeczpospolita notes – he was not particularly involved in the promotion of Skype, focusing more on the development of the Teams platform, which gives the same options and many additional, though already as part of paid packages. Microsoft now encourages skype users to skype users That they would go to the Teams application.
The application will be available for some time so that users can keep their data. – Skype data will be available until January 2026 to export or delete. If you log in to the Microsoft Teams in the free version by then, your Skype connection and chats will be available to you. If you don’t take any action, your Skype data will be deleted in January 2026. – is given in a message, the content of which is cited by tvn24.pl.
One cannot talk about Skype’s quiet departure, because he is accompanied by a lot of interest from Internet users, which can be seen in the Google Trends application in recent days. As “Rzeczpospolita” notes, especially many queries appeared from the Mazowieckie Voivodeship.
The daily points out that Skype is another known brand from years ago that disappears from the online market and was a symbol of new communication channels. Earlier, services such as MySpace or Gadu-Gadu have disappeared or marginalized.
