{"id":910453,"date":"2025-03-01T08:29:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T02:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=910453"},"modified":"2025-03-01T09:00:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T03:30:40","slug":"buzzword-for-digital-calls-skype-to-shut-down-in-may-2025-replaced-by-microsoft-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/01\/buzzword-for-digital-calls-skype-to-shut-down-in-may-2025-replaced-by-microsoft-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Buzzword for digital calls, Skype to shut down in May 2025 , replaced by Microsoft Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the end of the road for Skype, a prominent Internet calling and chat service that started in 2003 as an independent European company and was acquired by Microsoft in 2011 for $8.5 billion. <\/p>\n<p>For over a decade it was the buzzword for digital calls that offered a pass around expensive long-distance charges on the phone. At the same time, it served as a reminder that no technology is guaranteed to remain relevant forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the end of the road for Skype, a prominent Internet calling and chat service that started in 2003 as an independent European company and was acquired by Microsoft in 2011 for $8.5 billion. For over a decade it was the buzzword for digital calls that offered a pass around expensive long-distance charges on the phone. At the same time, it served as a reminder that no technology is guaranteed to remain relevant forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}