One of the internet's oldest communications apps will be retired on May 5, after its parent company Microsoft announced that ...

Skype is officially retiring after over 20 years. Microsoft announced in a Feb. 28 blog post that Skype is shutting down on May 5, 2025 to focus on Microsoft Teams, its communication and collaboration ...

Skype, popular for its IP-based voice and video calls as well as instant messaging is shutting down very soon. Microsoft has announced that Skype will no longer be available starting in May 2025 and ...

Skype's cheap audio and video calls quickly disrupted the landline industry in the early 2000s and made the company a ...

Microsoft is set to retire Skype after nearly two decades as the firm aims to focus on the homegrown Teams platform ...

The Microsoft-owned service was a pioneer in live video calls but later lost ground to competing programs such as Zoom.

For users, Skype will go offline May 5, when Microsoft replaces it with a free version of Microsoft Teams. Teams has been ...