Microsoft blew $8.5 billion on Skype only to spend 14 years killing it

AppleInsider
Feb 28, 2025, 10:44 am673 pts
Skype will be closed down in May 2025, but it really died in 2011 when it was bought by Microsoft. It's just been a death by a thousand slow-motion cuts. How we used to live. This is Skype on the Mac back in prehistory You didn't know Skype was still a thing, and in a few weeks' time, it won't be. Once a…

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