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What Happened To Skype?

The Verge explores why Skype isn’t having more success amid the spike in demand for virtual communication platforms. “If the coronavirus pandemic had swept across the world in 2011, everyone would have been using Skype to connect over video and voice calls,” it writes. Microsoft, which bought Skype for $8.5 billion in 2011, has failed to adapt the platform to the mobile demands of today’s consumers, while focusing all of its energies on Teams.

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  1. Douglas Ferguson from College of Charleston, April 1, 2020 at 4:53 p.m.

    Skype was never as reliable as Zoom, and Microsoft plowed its development into Teams as part of the Microsoft suite. Skype is analogous to MySpace that sold for a fortune and was allowed to decline. 

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