Microsoft is doing away with its once-popular video conference application Skype, the company announced Friday. "In order to streamline our free consumer communications offerings so we can more easily ...

Microsoft shut down Skype, the internet-based phone and video call service, on Monday, 14 years after the tech company bought it for $8.5 billion. Microsoft announced in February that Skype users ...

After a 21-year run, the once widely-used video chat app Skype is now officially a memory, as of May 5.

Skype, the pioneering online video calling service that has been around for more than two decades, will go offline for good after Monday. Microsoft, which owns Skype, announced in February that the ...

I worked with a voice therapist during the pandemic, when seeing her in person was obviously not an option. We used Skype. None of the other apps she tried (Zoom and Teams at minimum, probably others) ...

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 ...

Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about consumer AI products and their real-world impact, from ...

Microsoft has brought video-calling king Skype to the new Windows 8 OS, which hits stores Friday, and it sure looks pretty. Skype on Windows 8 offers all the trappings you’d expect from the well-known ...

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 ...

Microsoft, which owns Skype, announced in February that the service would be available until May 5 and urged users to switch over to the free version of Microsoft Teams, its communication platform ...