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Firstpost @ Firstpost Tech 1 place · 02/28/2025 10:07 EDT

Microsoft shuts down Skype to prioritise Teams

The platform has struggled to keep up with easier-to-use and more reliable rivals such as Zoom and Salesforce's Slack in recent years. The decline was partly because Skype's underlying technology was not suited for the smartphone era

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