Microsoft to Retire Skype After 21 Years, Pushing Users to Teams

Microsoft Shutting down Skype in May

Microsoft is closing down Skype, the video-calling service it bought for $8.5 billion in 2011, which had helped spark a transformation in how people communicate online.

Why Skype is being shut down and what it means for you - Overpasses For America

One of the internet’s oldest communications apps will be retired on May 5, after its parent company Microsoft announced that Skype would be replaced with a free version of Microsoft Teams. Skype, which was founded by a group of Nordic entrepreneurs, first launched in 2003. In the more than two decades since it first came online, it has continued to reshape global communications and is widely credited as one of the first internet calling services…

Why Skype is being shut down and what it means for you

The two-decade-old internet calling service disrupted the landline industry and changed global communication, but in May it will go offline for good.

Microsoft to shut down Skype in May after more than two decades

The Microsoft-owned service was a pioneer in live video calls but later lost ground to competing programs such as Zoom.

Microsoft Shutting Down Video-Calling Service Skype in May

Redmond: Microsoft is closing down Skype, the video-calling service it bought for USD 8.5 billion in 2011.The tech giant said Friday it will retire Skype in May and shift some of its services to Microsoft Teams, its flagship videoconferencing platform. Skype users will be able to

Bye, bye Skype! Microsoft to push Teams after retiring call pioneer

Skype will ring for the last time on May 5.