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Microsoft purchased Skype for $8.5 billion, deepening the company’s longstanding focus on real-time video and voice communications, and providing new market opportunities serving Skype’s 160-plus ...

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The Final Shutdown: Pour One Out for the Tech That Died in 2025 Say your goodbyes to AOL dial-up, Skype, Windows 10, and a host of other tech gadgets and services that powered down and logged off this ...