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Microsoft will begin the transition for all users from April 8, 2013, and aims to complete the move by April 30.

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Microsoft intends to phase out its long-standing Windows Live Messenger instant messaging service in favour of Skype. The company was incorporated as a division of Microsoft, and Microsoft acquired all of the company's technologies with the purchase.

On, Microsoft Corporation acquired Skype Communications, S.Ã r.l for US$8.5 billion. On 1 September 2009, it was announced that eBay was selling 65 % of Skype for US$1.9 billion, valuing Skype at US$2.75 billion. Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board acquisition
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agreed to acquire Luxembourg-based Skype Technologies SA for approximately US$2.6 billion in up-front cash and eBay stock, plus potential performance-based consideration. In August 2003, the first public beta version was released.
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The Skype software was developed by the Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, who together with Friis and Zennström were also behind the peer-to-peer file sharing software Kazaa. Skype was founded in 2003 by Janus Friis from Denmark and Niklas Zennström from Sweden. Microsoft will begin the transition for all users from April 8, 2013. On January 9, 2013, Microsoft revealed that it intends to sunset Windows Live Messenger in favor of its Skype service, although Messenger will continue in mainland China. Some network administrators have banned Skype on corporate, government, home, and education networks, citing reasons such as inappropriate usage of resources, excessive bandwidth usage, and security concerns. Skype's original proposed name (Sky Peer-to-Peer) reflects this fact. It makes use of background processing on computers running Skype software. Unlike most other VoIP services, Skype is a hybrid peer-to-peer and client–server system. Most of the development team and 44% of the overall employees of the division are situated in Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia. The network is operated by Microsoft, which has its Skype division headquarters in Luxembourg. Skype has 663 million registered users as of EOY 2010. Competitors include SIP and H.323-based services, such as Linphone and Google Voice.

Skype has also become popular for its additional features, including file transfer, and videoconferencing.
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Calls to other users within the Skype service are free of charge, while calls to landline telephones and mobile phones are charged via a debit-based user account system. Phone calls may be placed to recipients on the traditional telephone networks. The service allows users to communicate with peers by voice using a microphone, video by using a webcam, and instant messaging over the Internet. It developed into a platform with over 600 million users and was bought by Microsoft in 2011 for $8.5 billion. Skype was first released in 2003 written by Estonian developers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, who had also originally developed Kazaa. Skype ( pron.: / ˈ s k aɪ p /) is a proprietary Voice over IP service and software application. Voice over IP, instant messaging, videoconferencing
