Microsoft has announced the official shutdown date for Skype, the once-revolutionary calling and messaging service that ...

Skype (MSFT) is chirping its last goodbye. Its parent company, Microsoft, announced on Friday that Skype will be going ...

If I close my eyes, I can hear the once iconic Skype ringtone: "Da DA-da, do-do DO do." It was the sound of communication and ...

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

Microsoft announced on X that it will be shuttering Skype and pushing users towards Teams. X calls it an epic fumble.

Microsoft is retiring Skype in May 2025, urging users to migrate to Microsoft Teams Free. Here are some alternatives video ...

EPA But the platform has struggled to keep up with easier-to-use and more reliable rivals such as Zoom and Salesforce’s Slack in recent years. The decline was partly because Skype’s underlying ...

Slack and Teams, along with newer video platforms such as Zoom, saw explosive growth during the COVID-19 pandemic as ...

When The Vergecast was live on YouTube every Thursday, we used Skype’s NDI (Network Device Interface) to bring remote guests ...

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

Skype will be closed down in May 2025, but it really died in 2011 when it was bought by Microsoft. It's just been a death by ...

Eventually, broadcasters and most of my Skype buddies moved away from Skype. Media companies started using Zoom and the aforementioned Cisco. Businesses adopted Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft's ...