Microsoft confirmed Friday that it is officially retiring Skype in May and consolidating its consumer communication offerings into Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft was too busy adding emoji and trying to compete with the rise of WhatsApp, FaceTime, Snapchat, and Facebook Messenger that it had fallen short on the very basics of Skype. It had gotten to ...

Continue your calls and chats in Teams.” That explicitly spells out the plans for Skype’s deprecation in favor of Microsoft’s main-line voice and video chat software. In an email statement, the ...

The message seen in Microsoft's preview for the latest Skype for Windows(XDA ... that have been integrated with Windows. Also read: EPFO retains 8.25% interest rate on employees' provident ...

If they do not want to switch to Teams, they can export their data, including chat history and images shared in messages. "Starting in May 2025, Skype ... 8.5 billion and used it to replace its ...

As reported by XDA Developers, a hidden message inside the HMTL code for the Skype for Windows program reads ... Microsoft purchased Skype for $8.5 billion in cash with a 300% markup from ...

Microsoft says it will shut down the once popular voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) and video calling tool Skype in May ...

which was acquired by Microsoft in 2011 for $8.5 billion, the company’s largest acquisition at the time. Over the years, Skype was integrated into other Microsoft products, including Office and the ...

Skype first launched in 2003, before being acquired by eBay in 2005 and then by Microsoft in 2011 for 8.5 billion dollars, which used it to replace its Windows Live Messenger service. The most ...

First spotted by XDA Developers, the latest preview build of Skype for Windows reportedly has a message that reads ... In 2011, Microsoft acquired Skype for $8.5 billion, but the tech giant ...