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Skype got shouted down by Teams and Zoom. But it revolutionised human connection | John Naughton

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Microsoft has decided to terminate Skype , the internet telephony company it bought in 2011 for $ 8.5bn (6.6bn) Its millions of hapless users are to be herded into Microsoft Teams , a virtual encampment with a brain-dead aesthetic that makes even Zoom look cool.

Microsoft may not have found Skype useful in the end, but the rest of us certainly did.

A seismic regulatory clash is in the offing, says David Allen Green’s prescient analysis.

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