A message inside the latest Skype for Windows preview says it will shut down Skype on May 5, 2025, after 23 years of service.

Pioneer video-calling site Skype is shutting down on Monday after 23 years as other popular apps like Microsoft Teams and Zoom have swiped market share in recent years. Users of Microsoft-owned Skype ...

Microsoft has announced plans to discontinue its video-calling service, Skype, on 5 May 2025. Initially launched in 2003, Skype swiftly became a prominent platform for video communication over the ...

Skype, the pioneering and once ubiquitous free video calling service, will be history come May. It was so popular that people used it as a verb: "I'll Skype you in the morning." Microsoft, which ...

Skype, internet-based phone and video service that soared to popularity in the 2000s, is shutting down. Microsoft, Skype’s parent company, announced the news on X, saying the service will “no longer ...

Microsoft accidentally leaked word of its plans to migrate its Skype for Business customers to its Teams chat-based collaboration service a couple weeks ago. However, Microsoft is not going to force ...

Skype is shutting down May 5, leaving users about two months to migrate data over to Teams or find another platform altogether. According to Jeff Teper, Microsoft president overseeing communications ...

Microsoft's Skype has finally shut down, concluding its 22-year tenure as the once-dominant internet calling and messaging service. Microsoft acquired Skype in 2011 for $8.5 billion in what was then ...