If you rely on Skype to send messages and make video calls, you have until May to find a new service – our experts explore your options ...

Microsoft was too busy adding emoji and trying to compete with the rise of WhatsApp, FaceTime, Snapchat, and Facebook ...

Learn how to transition from Skype to Microsoft Teams before the service shuts down on May 5, 2025, including steps to export ...

Microsoft has announced its videoconferencing application - which launched in August 2003 - will retire on Monday, May 5, ...

Skype was an a pioneer in live video-calling that was bought by Microsoft in 2011, but was later overtaken by competing ...

“Skype calls have excellent sound quality and are highly secure with end-to-end encryption,” Skype’s homepage read in 2004.

Microsoft is shutting down Skype, the internet-based phone and video service that was once the dominant way of staying ...

As Microsoft is about to kill Skype in May 2025, its mobile group messaging app GroupMe is getting a new Copilot integration.

Microsoft said that users will have the choice to either move to Microsoft Teams for free, or export their data from Skype.

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Microsoft will soon switch off Skype, a pioneering telecom and video call platform that emerged from the rubble of the dotcom ...

Five years after Zoom's boom and another few years of Teams gaining popularity in the workspace, Microsoft – which owns both ...