It also could not provide emergency numbers to its clients in Europe, India, Nepal and North America. There are several challenges that development of Skype has faced over years, for instance on September 2016, employees at London office lost their jobs when it was closed more than two hundred employees were sacked to focus on further development of the program. Microsoft had to discontinue two of its products to focus on developing Skype: Windows Live Messenger on Apafter a period of transition that started on the 8 th of that month, and Lync in an announcement made on the November 11, 2014.

In May 2011, Microsoft came calling with a whopping 8.5 billion dollar acquisition of Skype communications.įollowing that acquisition by the Microsoft Corporation, Skype has undergone improvements into its technologies that have made it easier and more fun to use. In September 2009, 65% of the company was sold for 2.75 billion dollars to Silver Lake, Andreesssen Horowitz, and the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board. Skype has been acquired by different blue-chip companies starting with eBay on Septemfor 2.5 billion dollars. Skype has grown to become one of the most popular communications applications in the world, and its usage is expanding as the years go. In 2003, Niklas Zennstrom from Sweden and Janus Friis from Denmark came up with the idea, and its program was created by Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn. These features can be used between twenty-five people for free. An audio codec is necessary when making telephone calls and conference calling. The messaging application allows its subscribers to communicate through voice calls and messaging.

Skype is a social media application which provides users with the ability to have video chats, conference calls, and group chats.

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