Pour one out for the blue "S." After more than two decades, Skype — the once-ubiquitous video-calling app that defined early internet communication — is officially being retired. As of May 5, ...

After being around for what seems like forever, it's finally the end of the road for Microsoft's video conferencing and communications app Skype. On February 28, 2025, Jeff Teper, President of ...

Today, Microsoft shuttered Skype. The 22 year old telecommunications program is survived by its many successors, including the detestable Microsoft Teams. Skype was first released in 2003, and was ...

It’s official: Skype is dead. The long-lived (by internet standards) voice-over-internet app has been put out to pasture by parent company Microsoft. Though Skype was once considered the way to call ...

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 ...

Once hailed as a technology of the future, the video calling and messaging service Skype officially shut down on Monday, May 5, after 22 years in operation. Microsoft, which has owned Skype for 14 ...

Skype has officially become history, as the video calling app used by millions closed down today. The iconic live messaging and video calling service was once the go to for video calling, but now ...

Skype has officially left the chat. Microsoft pulled the plug on the iconic communication platform on May 5, 2025, redirecting users to Teams and its purple pastures. After 22 years of connecting ...

When Skype debuted in 2003, it was the first time I remember feeling that an individual app—and not just the broader internet—was radically disrupting communications. Thanks to its implementation of ...

TAMPA, Fla. (BLOOM) – Skype, the video calling platform that once revolutionized communication and connected hundreds of millions globally, officially shut down May 5, marking the end of a 22-year run ...

During Covid, my family struggled with Zoom meetings—some had cameras in awkward places, others couldn’t get their mics working. At that time, I had been using Zoom for some work meetings and some ...

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. Deader, probably ...