Microsoft is pulling the plug on Skype. Skype will remain online until May 5, giving users a limited window to decide: Move to Microsoft Teams or take their chat history and contacts elsewhere. The ...

On Friday, Microsoft announced that the 21-year-old calling and messaging service will shut down May 5. The software company is encouraging Skype users to migrate to its free Teams app. Skype won ...

As announced a few weeks ago, Microsoft has officially discontinued the Skype messaging service as of today, May 5th. Apparently, there wasn’t enough user interest to keep the once-iconic video call ...

Skype, the Microsoft-owned service that popularized making calls over the internet, is hanging up for good. In May, Microsoft will shut down Skype, which it bought in 2011 for $8.5 billion in what at ...

Shortly after my mother’s 89th birthday I called her landline via Skype. It was our last such communication ever. Don’t worry, mom’s fine. Skype, however, is as dead as the dire wolf. Deader, probably ...

Skype is going to go the way of Dodo in a few months. Microsoft has now said you should jump on Teams instead. The Microsoft-owned video conferencing tool missed the boat on the pandemic-era boom, but ...

Skype, internet-based phone and video service that soared to popularity in the 2000s, is shutting down. Microsoft, Skype’s parent company, announced the news on X, saying the service will “no longer ...

WASHINGTON — After over two decades of providing web calls, Skype is shutting down on May 5. Microsoft made the announcement Friday in a press release and on the official Skype X account. “Starting in ...

Skype is going the way of Clippy, Netscape and Vine. After more than two decades, Skype is going away. Microsoft announced on Friday that it will be shuttering the online calling program on May 5, ...