RIP Skype (2025)
Died a slow agonising death from years of neglect after being acquired by Microsoft.
Skype joins a growing list of messaging software that has died in the care of Microsoft.
β’ V-Chat (died 1995)
β’ Comic Chat (laid to rest 1999)
β’ Netmeeting (met demise 2007)
β’ Windows Messenger (croaked 2008)
β’ Meeting Space (expired 2009)
β’ Office Live Meeting (passed 2011)
β’ MSN Messenger (gave up ghost 2012)
β’ Qik (kicked bucket 2016)
*not a complete list.
Skype.
You will be remembered.
In a nostalgic kind of way.
For a while at least.