10/4/2023 0 Comments Skype stock historical chartSkype leveraged the same type of peer-to-peer networking idea that Kazaa was built upon, but applied it to voice transmission instead. They sold the company to Sharman Networks shortly thereafter and set out to build Skype. Zennstrom and Friis developed Kazaa a bit more and by around 2003, it became the most downloaded piece of software ever. Kazaa was initially built by some programmers in Estonia and then purchased by two guys: Niklas Zennstrom of Sweden and Janus Friis of Denmark. And better yet, no one person could really be held accountable for facilitating piracy since the file wasn’t stored on a central server anywhere-though as we’d see later, the people that actually owned Napster and Kazaa eventually got sued anyway. So the magic of Napster and later, Kazaa, was that when a popular file-say, a music file labeled HumptyDance.mp3-was made available on the network, everyone could download it really fast. And the more people who have the same file on their computer, the faster it could be sent to someone trying to download it. The more people who are on the network, the faster the network can send files back and forth. The basic structure of a peer-to-peer file sharing network is that whoever’s on the network is connected to everyone else on the network, with no official, central server or group of servers sitting in the middle holding all the files. Kazaa enabled people to share music files but it also let people share videos and programs as well, which made it very, very popular. Kazaa, in case you don’t remember or have never heard of it, was a peer-to-peer file sharing program used by millions of people in the early 2000’s just as Napster was getting shut down for enabling the illegal sharing of music files. But unlike buying a human writing machine like yours truly at an affordable price, Microsoft is paying $8.5 billion for something called Skype. Not to get too personal, but that’s many, many billions more than I make in a year. Microsoft Corporation was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.Follow just bought Skype for $8.5 billion. The company sells its products through OEMs, distributors, and resellers and directly through digital marketplaces, online stores, and retail stores. It also offers Surface, PC accessories, PCs, tablets, gaming and entertainment consoles, and other devices Gaming, including Xbox hardware, and Xbox content and services video games and third-party video game royalties and Search, including Bing and Microsoft advertising. The More Personal Computing segment provides Windows original equipment manufacturer (OEM) licensing and other non-volume licensing of the Windows operating system Windows Commercial, such as volume licensing of the Windows operating system, Windows cloud services, and other Windows commercial offerings patent licensing and Windows Internet of Things. It also offers enterprise support, Microsoft consulting, and nuance professional services to assist customers in developing, deploying, and managing Microsoft server and desktop solutions and training and certification on Microsoft products. The Intelligent Cloud segment licenses SQL, Windows Servers, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses GitHub that provides a collaboration platform and code hosting service for developers Nuance provides healthcare and enterprise AI solutions and Azure, a cloud platform. The Productivity and Business Processes segment offers Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Office 365 Security and Compliance, Microsoft Viva, and Skype for Business Skype,, OneDrive, and LinkedIn and Dynamics 365, a set of cloud-based and on-premises business solutions for organizations and enterprise divisions. The company operates in three segments: Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing. Microsoft Corporation develops, licenses, and supports software, services, devices, and solutions worldwide.
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