Skype bows out after 22 years of service
Monday, May 5, 2025, 9:20 am
In a bittersweet farewell, Skype officially shuts its doors after more than two decades of connecting millions worldwide. The service, once a groundbreaking tool for communications, is now stepping off stage, leaving longtime users to find alternative apps for their daily chats—apparently, even nostalgia can’t keep it alive.
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Skype has finally died. In February, Microsoft announced that it would shut down the video calling platform and replace it with a free version of Microsoft Teams. The day has finally come when Microsoft will be officially making the move, and burying its old video calling platform. The free…
Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 billion in 2011, and now its journey is over.
As the pioneering video-calling service shuts down, Microsoft urges users to switch to Teams for similar features.
After more than two decades, Skype is shutting down. The once-monolithic video calling platform wasn’t able to keep pace with competitors like Zoom and FaceTime, so its parent company, Microsoft, is rolling the product into Microsoft Teams. In this video, we’re sending off the iconic platform and…
The Skype video call and messaging service is shutting down today, 14 years after replacing Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger. [...]
It may be difficult to believe in this time of Zoom, Google Meet, and Slack, but at one point, Skype was one of the primary ways to make contact with friends, family, and colleagues. First released in 2003 and, after going through several owners, finally purchased by Microsoft in 2011, the app…
"When I knew it was over was when I downloaded Skype." All the way back in 2003, Michael Powell, then the chairman of the FCC and the United States' chief regulator of the telecom industry, told a roomful of academics and executives at the University of California at San Diego that he had seen the…
Today, May 5th, marks the final day for Skype, ending its 22-year run as a staple of daily communication.
After 23 years of connecting people around the world, Skype, the popular video-calling service, is shutting down on Monday. Microsoft, the parent company, confirmed that the official sunset date for the service is today, May 5, 2025. Skype users can either migrate all their contacts and chat data…
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