After 23 years of connecting people around the world, Skype, the popular video-calling service, is shutting down. Microsoft, ...

Skype was an a pioneer in live video-calling that was bought by Microsoft in 2011, but was later overtaken by competing ...

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

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

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

After more than 20 years, the video calling service that started it all is finally retiring in May as Microsoft plans to replace Skype with Teams once and for all.

Skype is among the world's most long-lasting digital brands. But other mobile apps took off faster, and Skype didn't see the ...

If you’re still using Skype, you don’t have much more time before the calling and messaging platform is retired.

Microsoft said it would shut down Skype, the internet calling service it bought for $8.5 billion in 2011. Users will be ...

Microsoft is officially retiring Skype, urging users to switch to Teams as the once-dominant video calling platform loses out ...

Five years after Zoom's boom and another few years of Teams gaining popularity in the workspace, Microsoft – which owns both ...

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