"In order to streamline our free consumer communications offerings so we can more easily adapt to customer needs, we will be ...

Skype shuts down as Microsoft moves users to Teams after struggling against newer services like Zoom, FaceTime, and Google ...

Microsoft has announced that the pioneering online video calling service that's been around for more than two decades will go offline on Monday.

(NEXSTAR) – After a 21-year run, the once widely-used video chat app Skype is now officially a memory, as of May 5. “Rest in peace, Skype,” one person wrote on X. “You served us well.” “Listen to that ...

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

After months of preparation and years of gradual decline, Microsoft has officially pulled the plug on Skype today, May 5th, 2025. While the service originated way back in 2003, it spent the last 14 ...

Skypers could also save their data manually by going to “Your Account” under “Settings” on Skype. A prompt allows them to choose whether to export contacts, caller ID numbers or chat history. Then, ...

Skype is shutting down. The once-monolithic video calling platform wasn’t able to keep pace with competitors like Zoom and FaceTime, so its parent company, Microsoft, is rolling the product into ...

Skype has been shut down by its owner Microsoft today. It comes more than two decades after its inital launch in 2003. Skype was among the most popular chat services across the globe until the rise of ...

Transitioning from Skype to Teams is free for users and does not require changing account credentials, with all contacts and ...

After over two decades of ups and downs for the video call platform, Microsoft is officially shutting down Skype.

Skype, the video-calling service that was once so popular it became a verb, has officially been retired by Microsoft. Here's ...