Microsoft has announced the official shutdown date for Skype, the once-revolutionary calling and messaging service that disrupted traditional telecoms. The 21-year-old platform will cease operations on May 5,

Skype (MSFT) is chirping its last goodbye. Its parent company, Microsoft, announced on Friday that Skype will be going offline for good on May 5, 2025. The tech giant is instead pivoting all its focus to Microsoft Teams,

Microsoft was too busy adding emoji and trying to compete with the rise of WhatsApp, FaceTime, Snapchat, and Facebook Messenger that it had fallen short on the very basics of Skype. It had gotten to the point, in 2016, where people were using Skype begrudgingly, simply because it was ubiquitous and nothing had replaced it yet.

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 possibility. Who knows what would happen during that video call, what I would learn,

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

Microsoft said that users will have the choice to either move to Microsoft Teams for free, or export their data from Skype.

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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 ...

The tech giant said Friday it will retire Skype in May and shift some of its services to Microsoft Teams, its flagship videoconferencing and team applications platform. Skype users will be able to use their existing accounts to log into Teams.

Five years after Zoom's boom and another few years of Teams gaining popularity in the workspace, Microsoft – which owns both Teams and Skype – has announced that it will be retiring the older service in the next couple of months, in order to focus its attention on Teams.

When The Vergecast was live on YouTube every Thursday, we used Skype’s NDI (Network Device Interface) to bring remote guests onto the show, which was the best software for our needs in the live control room at the time. However, once Zoom took over, that was the end of using the buggy Skype software. – Andru Marino, senior producer

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 ...