Microsoft is discontinuing Skype in May after 22 years of service. Kurt the CyberGuy addresses other options for ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – MAY 10: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (L) shakes hands with Skype CEO Tony Bates during a news conference on May 10, 2011 in San Francisco, California. Microsoft has agreed to ...

As announced last week, Microsoft is officially discontinuing the Skype messaging service on May 5, 2025. Apparently, there wasn’t enough user interest to keep the once-iconic video call app alive.

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.

(CNN) - Skype is shutting down after two decades. Microsoft confirmed on social media it is shutting down the internet-based phone and video service in May. Skype’s shutdown comes 14 years after ...