Microsoft purchased Skype for $8.5 billion, deepening the company’s longstanding focus on real-time video and voice communications, and providing new market opportunities serving Skype’s 160-plus ...

Skype has been around for about two decades at this point and ... So communicating is done directly between users without needing a centralized server to do the work. This is important as it makes ...

LONDON (AP) — Skype is dead. What now? Microsoft’s shutdown of Skype on May 5 sent millions of users scrambling to find an alternative to the pioneering internet phone service. Skype ...

5 May 2025 marked the end of an era when Microsoft pulled the plug on Skype after more than 20 years of connecting people. The video-calling app helped revolutionize peer-to-peer communication ...

Well, there goes Skype. Bye-bye, you garbage piece of software. I'm surprised you managed to hang around for as long as you did, frankly. Okay, I’m being a bit mean here; the impact of Skype on ...

After 23 years of being in the internet-based communication space, Skype has officially stopped working completely for the users on May 5 (2025). Microsoft, which acquired Skype in 2011 has ...

Skype is dead. What now? Microsoft's shutdown of Skype on Monday sent millions of users scrambling to find an alternative to the pioneering internet phone service. Skype, which Microsoft bought in ...

As Microsoft shutters Skype, users reflect on two decades of connection and change. Photo / Getty Images After 22 years, the video calling platform Skype has shut down. After its inception, ...

Shocking evidence has revealed a horrific plot by the Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner that he shared in a Skype group chat infested with paedophiles. Discoveries made newly public ...

Skype's consumer service was shut down by its parent company Microsoft on Monday. Though President Donald Trump's overzealous antitrust enforcers think popular platforms with large user bases ...