Once the go-to app for video chats, Skype seemed to go off the boil somewhere along the way and these days faces tough competition from a mountain of messaging apps that now incorporate their own ...

Microsoft's Skype has finally shut down, concluding its 22-year tenure as the once-dominant internet calling and messaging service. Microsoft acquired Skype in 2011 for $8.5 billion in what was then ...

Microsoft today released a technical preview of new Skype for Business voice and meetings capabilities in Office 365. The new features are actually available as part of three separate previews, which ...

For some years, Skype was popular for connecting people via voice and video, but its journey is ending. Yesterday, Microsoft announced that Skype will be replaced by Microsoft Teams in May 2025. 14 ...

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May 3 (UPI) --Skype debuted in 2003 and was an early disruptor in online communications, but Microsoft says it's time to close Skype and focus on its Teams video conferencing platform. "With teams, ...

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Microsoft today announced that it will officially retire Skype on May 5, 2025, concluding its 14-year tenure as the owner of the once-dominant internet calling and messaging service (via Bloomberg).

Two decades after first showing that it’s possible to use computers for real-time voice and video communication using peer-to-peer networking, Skype shut down for good this week. Microsoft bought the ...

Long before there was Zoom, FaceTime, Teams, and whatever Google’s decided to call its voice and video calling service this week, there was Skype. When it first launched in 2003 as a way to make voice ...

This post will show you how to back up, export, or download Skype Data. If you want to move all your Skype chats, contacts, and other data to Microsoft Teams, we show you how to migrate from Skype to ...