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 buy ...

Source Images: Prapat Aowsakorn via Canva.com, AJK via Canva.com, Oleksa via Canva.com) Editor at Large Shortly after my mother’s 89th birthday I called her landline via Skype. It was our last such ...

Months after announcing that it would be going away, Microsoft shut down the video-calling platform on May 5. As we say goodbye to Skype, we want to thank our incredible community. Over the years, you ...

All good things come to an end. Jeff Teper, president of collaborative apps and platforms at Microsoft, revealed in a Feb. 28 blog post that the company would be retiring the service in order to ...

Microsoft is sunsetting video conferencing service Skype later this year. According to a detail within Skype’s latest Windows preview, its demise is set for May 2025. Microsoft suggests that users ...

After more than 21 years, Skype will soon be no more. Last night, some users (including Ars readers) poked around in the latest Skype preview update and noticed as-yet-unsurfaced text that read ...

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. The ...

Microsoft is moving toward making good on its promise to ultimately allow Skype to work plug-in-free. On April 15, Microsoft announced Skype for Web, Outlook.com, Office Online and OneDrive now can do ...

Microsoft has integrated Skype calling with its recently relaunched Outlook.com webmail app, allowing users to quickly call up a contact instead of emailing or messaging them. No separate application ...