Skype was released in 2003 designed by Estonian developers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, who had also originally developed “Kazaa”. It developed into a platform over 600 million users but was bought by Microsoft in 2011 for $8.5 billion, Are you believe??
Its service allows users to communicate globally with peers by voice using a microphone, Video by using a webcam, and instant messaging to other users. Phone call may be placed to recipient on the traditional telephone network. Calls to other user with the Skype service are totally free of charge, while call to the landlines telephones and mobile phones are charged through a debit based user account system. Skype has become very popular due to its additional features, including file transfers, and videoconferencing calls.Some Competitors of Skype are the Google Talk service, Mumble and Hall.com.
Skype has over 663 million registered users in 2010. Microsoft operated its network and it has the Skype headquarter in Luxembourg. Most of its developers team and the 44% of overall of employees of this division are situated in Estonia.
Microsoft has been bought Skype and updated it, Now Skype is a peer-to-peer and client–server system, Unlike the most other VoIP services that’s why the original proposed name of Skype is “Sky Peer_to_Peer” reflects this fact.
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