Goodbye "Skype" .. The telecommunications service is officially defeated before Zoom and Tims

Microsoft announced the end of the “Skype” service, the famous communication platform it obtained almost 14 years ago, which indicates the end of the pioneering application era in calls and chats online. Who kidnapped the throne of “Skype”? Skype was previously the most important name in digital calls that canceled international telecommunications, but he has withdrawn over the past few years before integrated communication applications on smartphones and video services such as “Zoom”. When “Microsoft” tried to expand the “Skype” mark to the work environment, it faced an intense competition from the company “Slack Technology”. ‘Microsoft’ responded to this decline by developing the ‘teams’ application from scratch, which is an application for conversations, voice calls and video dedicated to the work environment, and the application has already managed to achieve a wide distribution thanks to the integration with the company’s Program Pakket. Microsoft is scheduled to provide Skype users to move to “times” before the service is completely closed next May. ‘Skype’, a journey of Ascension and Landing, said Jeff Tiber, head of the communications and cooperation department at Microsoft: In 2016, Microsoft announced that the number of Skype users 300 million users is dropping more than 2023 users per day. Skype was founded in 2003 by a group of entrepreneurs in Northern Europe, and was later owned by eBay. Before being purchased by an investment alliance led by private enterprises. At the time, Microsoft CEO Steve Palmer decided to bet strongly on the online call market, so Skype in May 2011 for $ 8.5 billion, an amount represented more than 40% more than the internal evaluation of the company. Microsoft’s biggest acquisition at the time, and Skype was seen at the time as an important part of Microsoft’s strategy “for the era of cell phones. But things did not go as Palmer planned, such as emerging applications such as” Telegram “,” Snapchat “,” Weithat “and WhatsApp led into the benefits of the settings. -group, which has changed to individual users in an instrument that is focused on the business sector. -Ins, according to Jeff Tiber’s statements. Tiber also confirmed that no employees who work on Skype will not be demobilized, but will be transferred to other projects within the business. At a time, Skype represented a leading platform for artificial intelligence experiences in Microsoft as it was used to start the first real translation offer. CEO Satia Nadella at the time urged the research team to quickly launch this technology and describe it as’ magic ‘during a 2014 presentation. Tiber concluded his speech by saying:’ The Times application is very successful, and it is a step to improve its position. The field is now in a big difference. “