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On Friday, Microsoft announced that the 21-year-old calling and messaging service will shut down May 5. The software company is encouraging Skype users to migrate to its free Teams app. Skype won ...

Microsoft is shutting down Skype in an effort to push users towards its platform, Microsoft Teams. Existing Skype users can migrate to Teams, which offers similar core features but lacks phone call ...

Microsoft just announced that it’s shutting down Skype in May 2025, officially ending the run of what was once my go-to app for video and voice calls. If you’re still using Skype, you’ll need to find ...

The beloved app is leaving behind a very different world than the one it gave birth to. Before we were wedged into "Brady Bunch" squares on Zoom and Microsoft Teams, before we grew accustomed to ...

More than 20 years after Skype became the go-to video platform, Microsoft is shutting down the app. Amid a rapidly changing atmosphere in technology, people around the world have switched to using ...

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Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The app offered a convenient and trustworthy way to make calls and keep in touch. The app offered a convenient ...

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 ...