Eventually, Microsoft pivoted away towards Skype, where the only discernible revenue came from SkypeOut, a paid service that allowed users to call real phone lines and send SMS messages.

Skype was originally designed to make calls between computers but the addition of SkypeOut lets Skype users make calls to traditional phone lines. Such calls aren't free but they're amazingly ...

The service further evolved in the following years, with the launch of SkypeOut for traditional landline calls and the introduction of video chatting. This helped grow the platform to 40 million ...

Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 billion in 2011, and now its journey is over.

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