{"id":910567,"date":"2025-03-01T10:51:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T05:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=910567"},"modified":"2025-03-01T10:51:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T05:21:19","slug":"end-of-an-era-microsoft-to-retire-skype-after-nearly-two-decades-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/01\/end-of-an-era-microsoft-to-retire-skype-after-nearly-two-decades-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an era: Microsoft to retire Skype after nearly two decades. Here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big tech giant Microsoft Corp. has decided to retire the online video conferencing platform Skype after a two-decade run as the tech major is set to focus more on the firm&#8217;s Microsoft Teams services, reported the news agency Reuters on Friday, February 28. <\/p>\n<p>According to the news agency&#8217;s report, the company is set to stop offering Skype services on May 5, 2025. Skype is software that connects millions of people across the world through the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big tech giant Microsoft Corp. has decided to retire the online video conferencing platform Skype after a two-decade run as the tech major is set to focus more on the firm&#8217;s Microsoft Teams services, reported the news agency Reuters on Friday, February 28. According to the news agency&#8217;s report, the company is set to stop offering Skype services on May 5, 2025. Skype is software that connects millions of people across the world through the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910567","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}