After 23 years of connecting people around the world, Skype, the popular video-calling service, is shutting down. Microsoft, ...

Microsoft was too busy adding emoji and trying to compete with the rise of WhatsApp, FaceTime, Snapchat, and Facebook ...

Microsoft announced its decision to discontinue Skype. Skype revolutionized computer-to-computer communication to the point ...

Learn how to transition from Skype to Microsoft Teams before the service shuts down on May 5, 2025, including steps to export ...

“Skype calls have excellent sound quality and are highly secure with end-to-end encryption,” Skype’s homepage read in 2004.

In a move that could have been seen coming from at least a decade away, Microsoft has confirmed that the Skype service will ...

Microsoft has announced its videoconferencing application - which launched in August 2003 - will retire on Monday, May 5, ...

Microsoft is shutting down Skype, the internet-based phone and video service that was once the dominant way of staying ...

Skype was an a pioneer in live video-calling that was bought by Microsoft in 2011, but was later overtaken by competing ...

To encourage this transition, Microsoft will soon allow users to sign in to the free version of Teams with their Skype ...

This morning, Microsoft has confirmed to Ars that it's true. May 5, 2025, will mark the end of Skype's long run.

Five years after Zoom's boom and another few years of Teams gaining popularity in the workspace, Microsoft – which owns both ...