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Microsoft Skype Shutdown: Microsoft is finally pulling the plug on Skype, the video-calling platform from a bygone era of the internet that precedes the dominance of tech giants such as Meta, Google, and Apple. With an $8.5 billion buyout, Skype was one of Microsoft's biggest acquisitions back in 2011. However, the video-conferencing tool's future has been uncertain since users migrated en masse to Zoom in the midst of a global pandemic. Its fate was sealed when Microsoft pivoted to Teams, which was made the default integrated communications app for Windows 11 in 2021. Like the iPod and other relics of…
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