Microsoft is shutting down Skype in favor of Teams. Skype will be retired on May 5th, and existing users will need to export their data or migrate to Teams.

You’d be forgiven for thinking that Microsoft Teams fully replaced Skype when it launched in 2017, but its video conferencing predecessor is still going strong, and has jumped on the ...

Microsoft Teams launched in 2017. While Microsoft declined to share the latest user figures for Skype with Reuters, the company said there would be no job cuts due to the move and that Teams has ...

Instead, Microsoft plans to replace Skype with the free version of Microsoft Teams, the company said. In doing do, Microsoft will throw a shovelful of dirt on Skype, which it bought for $8.5 ...

Skype might feel long gone, but Skype for Business Server is still hanging on. That’s true for customers who haven’t gone all ...

The news will come as little surprise to those who have followed Skype in recent years, and in many ways, the writing has been on the wall since 2016, when Microsoft debuted Teams. While Microsoft ...

Skype shut down in May. Here’s how to access some of the data from your old Skype account, if you weren't prepared for the migration to Microsoft Teams.

In February 2025, 14 years after buying it, Microsoft announced that Skype would go offline on May 5, offering Skype users 60 days to export their data or migrate to the free Teams app for consumers.

Image: Microsoft. Microsoft is officially retiring Skype on May 5, ending the app’s two-decade run as a pioneer in video calling. The move signals Microsoft’s full shift toward Teams, its all ...

Microsoft has announced that Skype will officially retire in May 2025, marking the end of an era for one of the worlds ...

Microsoft also made a tool to easily view existing Skype chat history if you don’t want to move to Teams. Skype will remain ...