✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-02-28
This week, I reflect on Skype's decline as Microsoft Teams takes over, recalling its iPhone debut in 2009.
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The story that caught my eye this week was the impending demise of Skype as Microsoft Teams consumes the remaining holdouts.
Techmeme: Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
By Paul Sawers / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
While I've not used Skype in many years, I still remember when Skype came to the iPhone in 2009.
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