{"id":18033,"date":"2025-03-09T13:37:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T12:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/skype-shutdown-surfaces-sweet-memories-i-proposed-marriage\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T13:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T12:37:35","slug":"skype-shutdown-surfaces-sweet-memories-i-proposed-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/skype-shutdown-surfaces-sweet-memories-i-proposed-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype shutdown surfaces sweet memories: \u2018I proposed marriage\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian readers share how the software connected them with loved ones when there were few affordable means to reach those for away<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft announced on the last day of February that it would sunset Skype. By the time the death knell tolled, the video chatting software that once revolutionized communications had become a ghost of its former self. Experts chimed in with half-hearted eulogies for the platform that Microsoft spent years neglecting, yet few were surprised, and even fewer shed tears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that Skype was never integrated into any other Microsoft platform, nor redesigned to resemble other Microsoft solutions or included in any bundled commercial offerings \u2013 despite its loss of users \u2013 was a clear indication that Microsoft had long decided to discontinue the service,\u201d said Gianvito Lanzolla, a professor of strategy, at<strong> <\/strong>University of London.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/mar\/09\/skype-shutdown-memories-video-calling\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7d1900a2a28d2d6d0282858e4bd3ef5a2c380779\/0_241_3600_2159\/master\/3600.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3746ab3429dedde22a626221e5285736\" title=\"Skype shutdown surfaces sweet memories: \u2018I proposed marriage\u2019\" \/>Guardian readers share how the software connected them with loved ones when there were few affordable means to reach those for away<br \/>\nMicrosoft announced on the last day of February that it would sunset Skype. By the time the death knell tolled, the video chatting software that once revolutionized communications had become a ghost of its former self. Experts chimed in with half-hearted eulogies for the platform that Microsoft spent years neglecting, yet few were surprised, and even fewer shed tears.<br \/>\n\u201cThe fact that Skype was never integrated into any other Microsoft platform, nor redesigned to resemble other Microsoft solutions or included in any bundled commercial offerings \u2013 despite its loss of users \u2013 was a clear indication that Microsoft had long decided to discontinue the service,\u201d said Gianvito Lanzolla, a professor of strategy, at University of London. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian readers share how the software connected them with loved ones when there were few affordable means to reach those for away Microsoft announced on the last day of February that it would sunset Skype. By the time the death knell tolled, the video chatting software that once revolutionized communications had become a ghost of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/skype-shutdown-surfaces-sweet-memories-i-proposed-marriage\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skype shutdown surfaces sweet memories: \u2018I proposed marriage\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18033"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}