o Microsoft has decided to terminate Skype, the internet telephony company it bought in 2011 for $8.5bn £6.6bn. Its millions of hapless users are to be herded into Microsoft Teams, a virtual encampment with a brain dead aesthetic that makes even Zoom look cool. This eventuality had been telegraphed for quite a while but, even so, it comes as a jolt because Skype was a remarkable venture, and its demise closes a chapter of an interesting strand of technological history. The internet has been...
