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

Skype is among the world's most long-lasting digital brands. But other mobile apps took off faster, and Skype didn't see the ...

Continue your calls and chats in Teams.” That explicitly spells out the plans for Skype’s deprecation in favor of Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft is retiring Skype in May 2025, urging users to migrate to Microsoft Teams Free. Here are some alternatives video ...

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

If you rely on Skype to send messages and make video calls, you have until May to find a new service – our experts explore ...

Founded in 2003, Skype’s audio and video calls quickly disrupted the landline industry in the early 2000s and made the company a household name boasting hundreds of millions of users at its peak.

Skype was launched in 2003 by entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, with the company's name combining "Sky" with a reference to peer-to-peer networks, the technology that during the dotcom ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced plans to discontinue Skype and direct the service’s users to Microsoft Teams, its flagship communications platform. Skype will officially shut down on May 5.

Microsoft has decided that it no longer wants anything to do with Skype. The company continues to press forward with its ...

Skype was not the first or only company offering this service but by allowing the public to make computer-to-computer calls free, it helped popularise the concept. In an announcement on X ...