Microsoft has announced its videoconferencing application - which launched in August 2003 - will retire on Monday, May 5, ...

Microsoft was too busy adding emoji and trying to compete with the rise of WhatsApp, FaceTime, Snapchat, and Facebook ...

Microsoft is shutting down Skype, the internet-based phone and video service that was once the dominant way of staying ...

“Skype calls have excellent sound quality and are highly secure with end-to-end encryption,” Skype’s homepage read in 2004.

Learn how to transition from Skype to Microsoft Teams before the service shuts down on May 5, 2025, including steps to export ...

With Skype on the way out, Microsoft has officially pointed people toward Teams. But by the time Skype support ends in May, ...

Microsoft announced on X that it will be shuttering Skype and pushing users towards Teams. X calls it an epic fumble.

For users, Skype will go offline on May 5, when Microsoft replaces it with a free version of Microsoft Teams. Teams has been ...

When Microsoft acquired Skype, it was buying into a massively popular app with over one billion downloads and hundreds of millions of users.At the time, Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, declared, ...

This morning, Microsoft has confirmed to Ars that it's true. May 5, 2025, will mark the end of Skype's long run.

The Skype logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. Microsoft is closing down Skype, the video-calling service it bought ...

Skype will ring for the last time on May 5 as owner Microsoft retires the two-decade-old internet calling service that ...