The last days of Skype: Time to switch to Teams – or say goodbye


Skype, once the most affordable way to call people, is now reportedly being shut down, 14 years after it was bought by Microsoft for US$8.5bil (RM37.6bil). — Photo: Monika Skolimowska/dpa

BERLIN: As the sun slowly sets Skype, some two decades after it started a revolution in online communication, owner Microsoft is pointing the way to its remaining loyal users: Teams.

The tech company wants to make it as easy as possible to switch over to its business-oriented communication platform and says it's working on a way to let people use their Skype logins to access Teams. Once you log in, all Skype chats, contacts and groups should automatically appear in Teams.

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