Skype is 9 Years' Old in August 2012. What do the next nine look like? Predictions, roadmaps, and a little fun.

1. Wednesday, 29 August 2012
is Skype's 9th Birthday.
Happy Birthday, Skype!
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2. 29 August 2012
9 More Years of
Skype
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3. New High: 47 Million Concurrent Users 2013
Skype for XBox Rocks Skype in
50% of Xboxes ship with Kynect. Browsers
Games have Skype teamspeak. WebRTC slows
Players Skype. desktop downloads,
boosts usage
Bing sells Skype
click-to-call ads Skype comes
Highest sales conversion
rates of any ad format. Skype with Windows
hires 100 for buildout. Twice as many people
keep Skype running
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4. 500K Teachers in skype.edu community 2014
Skype for Google Glasses
Skype for iBans
First generation Augmented
Reality Chat
Skype Rooms
Layed Off SharePoint cloud
telco workers conferencing for
protest at
Skype HQ teams, customers
Zynga players Skype for Kindle
talk and play Amazon Prime includes
Skype powers casual gaming, Skype Premium
outstrips Skype’s XBox chat
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5. 14K Apps for SkypeKit Cloud 2015
Skypecasts Reborn
Competes with YouTube Live, Hangouts and Apple
Siri for Skype, Skype for Cars
Hands-free Skyping; Assistant; 3rd Party Bot Store
SmallBiz Premium
Hosted telephony for 3 Million Small Companies
B uy s
Apple dds to
1K pyrightype
Big Colock Sk
at Skype
TokBox, a DevCon Sues To B nsfers
iChat F ile Tra
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6. 100K Apps for Skype Cloud 2016
Audit:
Skype for Gigabit 19% of
"4K" HD Resolution Skype
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in Group Broadcasts President are botts
Clinton skypes s
Congress from
peace talks
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Log in to millions of sites with
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7. New High: 100 Million Concurrent Users 2017
Skype Wins MS
Mobile phones,
Enterprise telephony,
Brand Infighting
all IM and Mail get
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Anonymous
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Skype lie ch y bran
of Skype
detector sm urf
user evidence 3D
directory Augmented
admitted for
use in court Reality Emoji
for Skype
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8. $6 Billion Revenue 2018
Skype Prime Resurfaces Registry
reserves Skype
Get paid for your time in Skype sessions. names for
Hire someone for live services. newborns
Partners with 300 labor markets.
Ballmer
Pay With Skype Retires
Microsoft vs. PayPal More Calling
Minutes from
Skype returns to CES Skype mobile than
Desktops
TVs, Cars, Home Security, Wearables
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9. Half of All TVs come with Skype & Webcam 2019
Skype & Nuance Add
Live Machine Translation
to Skype Calls
11 Languages at Launch
100 Million
Office Workers
have Never
Used a Desk
w in s
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Phone
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Se n Auction Skype settles
otico harity
Em r C patent suit for
fo $500 Million
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10. 1 Billion Active Users 2020
Russia Revokes
Skype Ban, Taxes Tony
Bates
Internet CEO of
MSFT
Skype hires Putin’s widow
and Pussy Riot survivors
as spokespeople Manned Mars
Skype mission Skypes
home
sponsors
Olympic Skype's Tencent
fencing
headcam
QQ Partnership
video Pays Off
Skype QQ serves 50% of
Chinese Internet
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11. Skype at 18 Parties like it's 2012 2021
• 1.1 Billion Active Users
• 50% of Calls With Live Machine Translation
• 100 Million Augmented Reality Users
• Africa is Skype's #1 Market
• China #2 Market
• 150 Million Concurrent Sessions
• $1 Billion Cloud Platform Services
• $2 Billion Office Communication
• $3 Billion Premium Consumer
• $5 Billion Advertising & Live CRM
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12. What's a Dollar?? 2112
"Skype"
Trivial Pursuit 2100 Telepathy
Edition answer to “What did the
Koreas use to negotiate the
2032 Olympic Games that led
to unification?”
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13. 2012
9 More Years of
Skype
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14. 2012
Phil Wolff
editor@skypejournal.com
@evanwolf
@skypejournal
skype:evanwolf
+1-510-444-8234
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