Skype, once a trailblazer for internet-enabled video calling, might finally ride into the sunset after years of a shoddy competitive streak. The latest preview build of Skype ships with a few lines of ...

Skype will be retired on May 5th, and existing users will need to export their data or migrate to Teams.

You can get in touch with Claire by emailing c.dickey@newsweek.com. The decision to shut down Skype comes as part of Microsoft's strategy to streamline its communication tools, integrating the ...

Skype, the pioneering and once ubiquitous free video calling service, will be history come May. It was so popular that people used it as a verb: "I'll Skype you in the morning." Why now? Microsoft ...

Kate joined Newsweek in May 2024. She is a graduate of Ithaca College. Microsoft has announced that Skype will officially retire on May 5, 2025, marking the end of the once-dominant video-calling ...

It’s last call for Skype, the internet-based phone and video platform so dominant in the mid-2000s that it became a verb. The impending shutdown was confirmed in a statement released Friday by ...

Veteran video call app Skype will apparently be fully switched off by May this year, according to a string of code in the latest Skype for Windows preview, spotted by XDADevelopers readers and ...

Alternatively, you can save your old contacts and chats by exporting them from Skype ahead of time. It's a major fall from grace for the app, which had 660 million global users at the end of 2010 ...