As we bid farewell to Skype, I’m thinking about how it lost the war on Zoom - and why it was all Microsoft’s fault.

The service was also faced with an explosion of competition. As smartphones proliferated ... This should have been the time for Skype to shine, but instead, Zoom took over, becoming the go-to ...

At its peak, Skype was enormous. In 2009, The New York Times reported the app had 405 million users, and accounted for 8 ...

The video chat service will officially be phased out by Microsoft on May 5. Here's how users are remembering it.

But Skype's user base has dwindled in recent years, as the app has faced growing competition from video calling and messaging alternatives such as Zoom, WhatsApp and Slack. The app went from roughly ...

However, Skype’s clientele dipped over the years as consumers sought to use other products that provided competition in the ... opted for services such as Zoom and Teams over Skype.

LONDON (AP) — Skype is dead. What now? Microsoft’s shutdown of Skype ... The videoconferencing service that’s become a byword ...

The case of Skype, like those of Yahoo, MySpace, and AOL, is proof that network effects are insufficient to insulate a firm from market competition indefinitely.

Microsoft's Skype has finally shut down ... shrinking to approximately 36 million by 2023 as competitors such as Zoom, WhatsApp, and Microsoft's own Teams platform gained traction.

After 23 years of connecting people around the world, Skype, the popular video-calling ... take notes and create custom background images. Zoom is another popular web-conferencing tool.

The service was also faced with an explosion of competition ... This should have been the time for Skype to shine, but instead, Zoom took over, becoming the go-to communications app.