Year 2010-2011… After I left school You sit at your PC and open Skype to play games with your friends. Those were good times, weren’t they?

Skype, once the best-known application, is unfortunately not talked about much anymore. But why? What exactly happened to Skype?

Skype was a hit the moment it was released.

Thanks to Skype, people can now go beyond instant messaging. more intimate and real-time communication He could set it up.

Later on eBay, Skype purchased for $2.7 billion and made it bigger, but the real growth came with the addition of video calls.

But like any great story, Skype had problems.

Changes that come with Windows 8 and Abandoning P2P technology, worsened the user experience. Although Skype was once a user-friendly and accessible platform for everyone, that is gradually becoming the case complicated and cumbersome It has become one.

Although Microsoft is trying to overcome these difficulties Skype’s star was already fading even.

Skype, once known for its simplicity, was bloated with unnecessary features.

Skype, which received negative feedback from users, He had lost his old sincerity. Microsoft, start all over again and initially thought it would be easier to create the desired work schedule.

The name Skype was no longer as popular as it used to be, so it became a much more successful name. To create Microsoft Teams They have completely abandoned this program.

Later Discord appeared in 2015 and offered a much more robust, organized and individualized communication experience, especially for players. The final nail in the coffin is of course the 2020 pandemic. Zoom during the pandemic came over.

Whatever happened to Skype, Even the name still reminds me of the past not true?

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