Microsoft's Windows Store might have more than a few big-name apps missing when it officially launches alongside Windows 8 on Oct. 26, but Skype won't be one of them. Today, the Microsoft-owned video ...

Skype was suffering from a brownout effect over the last few days. Users had trouble logging on. Now Skype said that Patch Tuesday was the cause. Or rather, the fact that millions of Windows users had ...

Skype today blamed last week’s outage on a combination of overloaded instant messaging servers, buggy software, and the failure of its “supernode” infrastructure. In a lengthy blog entry Wednesday, ...

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 ...

Microsoft has confirmed that the Skype video call and messaging service will be shut down in May, 14 years after replacing the Windows Live Messenger. A reader contacted BleepingComputer, and shared ...

One of the main focuses of the new update is improving software stability. Microsoft has invited Skype Insider project members to test the latest version of the app on Windows 11. This update ...

Analysts and rivals today said they were dubious of Skype Ltd.’s explanation that the voice-over-IP service’s 48-hour outage was triggered by restarts after Microsoft’s monthly security updates were ...

Internet telephony provider Skype released its app for the Windows Phone operating system on Sunday on the Windows Phone Marketplace, a couple of months after releasing the beta version of the app.

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Load placed on VOIP system as computers rebooted after receiving a routine set of Microsoft patches revealed a bug in Skype's software The widespread failure of Skype’s Internet telephony service last ...

Skype released a major update to both its Mac and Windows clients today. On the Mac, Skype 6.0 brings a number of enhancements, including the ability to open chats in multiple windows, Retina display ...

It was a long time coming, but back in February Skype made it onto Windows Phone… in beta. Now, testing is over, and you can get your hands on the full, official ...