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

Continue your calls and chats in Teams.” That explicitly spells out the plans for Skype’s deprecation in favor of Microsoft’s main-line voice and video chat software. In an email statement, the ...

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

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

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 ...

In a move that will likely surprise no one, it appears Microsoft is gearing up to shut down Skype in the coming months.

FILE - This photo shows the icon for Microsoft's Skype app on a smartphone in New York, April 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)(Patrick Sison / AP) The tech giant said Friday it will retire ...

Microsoft was too busy adding emoji and trying to compete with the rise of WhatsApp, FaceTime, Snapchat, and Facebook Messenger that it had fallen short on the very basics of Skype. It had gotten to ...

Microsoft is officially shutting down Skype (RIP). Even if you haven't used the app in years, it's possible Skype was your introduction into modern video chats. The app made it easy to call ...

Microsoft (MSFT) will be shutting down its video call platform Skype this May 2025. The tech giant originally acquired Skype fourteen years ago, in May 2011. Brad Smith and Julie Hyman report on ...