Since the foundation of Skype in August 2003,
10 years have passed. Right now as the combination between skype and Microsoft,
the numbers of users in skype have overpassed 300 million people. Now let’s
look back what happened grandly in the past few years.
The foundation
Skype is designed by a group of engineers
from Estonia in 2003, who also developed the P2P software Kazaa. This application
is used to support the video call of Skype, besides, skype is also named from
sky peer to peer, which is linked with p2p.
The initial color of its logo is purple. At
that time, skype only can be made phone call with PC.
Skype 9.0 launched the first paid- call
service, meaning skype moves into the telecom officially.
First video call
Skype 2.0 are issued in 2005, which is the
first video call application. The design is simpler and clean, easy for users
to handle. This new innovation brought a huge revelation in VOIP.
this application Can voice calls, video calls, online chat, new
animation expression, file sharing, group chat, SMS, chat logs, and other
functions.
Move into social contact
more social element were added into skype
3.1. it not only can be used to make calls, but to make new friends online as
well. There was a skypecasts in 2006, which has a capacity of hundreds of net
people chat in one room.
And user can use the specific engine to
search for friends according to their ages, gender, nationality, regions.
Purchased by Microsoft
Microsoft spent $8.5 billion making acquisition
of Skype In May 2011. At that time, the stability of the Windows platform
version of Skype is 5.3, the embedded version of Facebook and the function of
video group chat. This is the interface of the Skype is 5.3.
In November 2012, Microsoft announced Skype
will replace MSN as Microsoft's main instant messaging software. Since then,
slowly fill the gaps in the MSN delisting Skype, Skype currently supported
using Microsoft account login, and appeared on the installation interface
Microsoft's bing search box.
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