Starting today, if you are using Skype on Windows, Mac or Xbox One, you'll be able to hold group video chats with other Skype users without paying the $9.99 per month for a Skype Premium account, ...

There are only a few examples throughout business history: “Google it,” “get that Xeroxed,” “you can Venmo me.” But even products that reach this rarified air are vulnerable to shifting corporate ...

Microsoft shut down Skype on May 5, 2025, after 14 years of service, transitioning users to Microsoft Teams. Users can transfer their Skype data to Teams until January 2026, though recent data ...

Skype has officially shut down. Microsoft, which owns the platform, confirmed that the video app was discontinued on May 5th, so today's news is no surprise. We reported Microsoft's plan to end Skype ...

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 ...

(NEXSTAR) – After a 21-year run, the once widely-used video chat app Skype is now officially a memory, as of May 5. “Rest in peace, Skype,” one person wrote on X. “You served us well.” “Listen to that ...

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 ...

Today is the official shutdown day for Skype, Microsoft's long-running internet-enabled phone call and messaging service. Originally announced in February, the shutdown happened Monday, the end of an ...

Skype is no more, as Microsoft is retiring the once-popular video calling service on Monday. Shutting down Skype will help the software giant focus on its homegrown Teams service by simplifying its ...

The Skype video call and messaging service is shutting down today, 14 years after replacing Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger. Skype was first released in August 2003 by a collective of Swedish, ...

Editor at Large Shortly after my mother’s 89th birthday I called her landline via Skype. It was our last such communication ever. Don’t worry, mom’s fine. Skype, however, is as dead as the dire wolf.

Today is the day: Microsoft has formally shuttered the Skype app and service after announcing in February that Skype was being axed in favor of Microsoft Teams, the company’s Slack competitor. It’s an ...