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The deft hand of the Deathstar…

When Microsoft bought Skype in 2011 for $8.5bn after outbidding Google and Facebook, its largest deal at the time, the service had about 150 million monthly users; and “Skype” was the commonly used verb for all video conferencing.

By 2020, the number of subscribers had fallen to roughly 23 million. And now they’re turning it off.