What Skype users should expect from new deal with Microsoft. May 11, 2011— -- What does Microsoft need to do to keep Skype customers happy? Nothing at all. Microsoft announced plans Tuesday to ...

Microsoft has confirmed to The Verge that Skype will shut down on May 20th, 2025, with the free version of Microsoft Teams for consumers as the designated successor. The company said, "Skype users ...

Microsoft will retire Skype, the 21-year-old calling and messaging service, in May. Skype grew quickly in the 2000s and ended up in Microsoft's hands in 2011. But Skype lost steam in the 2010s as ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced plans to discontinue Skype and direct the service’s users to Microsoft Teams, its flagship communications platform. Skype will officially shut down on May 5. The ...

Microsoft announced that it is halting service for its Skype telecommunications and video calling services on May 5, 2025. The company said the service, which was acquired 14 years ago for $8.5 ...

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 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, ...

The Skype video call and messaging service is shutting down today, 14 years after replacing Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger. Skype was first released in August 2003 by a collective of Swedish, ...

It’s the end of an era. Skype, the video calling platform that revolutionized online communication across the world after its 2003 launch, will soon ring its final bubbly dial tone, Microsoft has ...