Is Skype dead—or just misunderstood? Once the king of video calling, Skype was dethroned by competitors like Zoom, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. But what really happened to Skype? Why did it lose its ...

For two decades, skype was the loudest voice in international calling. But on 5 May 2025, the platform quietly went offline.

Microsoft has made Subscription Editions (SE) of Exchange Server and Skype for Business Server generally available, marking ...

Microsoft is shutting down Skype, the internet-based phone and video service that was once the dominant way of staying connected in the mid 2000s.

All good things come to an end. Microsoft is pulling the plug on Skype on May 5, nearly 15 years after the tech juggernaut acquired the VoIP European provider from eBay for $8.5 billion. Jeff ...

Skype is widely regarded as one of the most successful tech companies to come out of Europe, but who are the people that built the company and where are they now? They’ve got their fingers in ...

Skype’s resistance to government monitoring, part of the company ethos when European engineers founded it in 2003, resulted from both uncommonly strong encryption and a key technical feature ...

Skype numbers can be ported to a phone carrier or any number of other VoIP services. But you’ll have to start the process through the new provider, not Skype. Google Voice.

Skype, the pioneer video-calling site from the early 2000s, is shutting down on Monday after 23 years in business as rivals like Microsoft Teams and Zoom have squashed the platform’s userbase.

Skype's lack of clearly defined encryption and dependence on proprietary protocols isn't good enough in 2016. In re-engineering the Skype network, Microsoft could, and should, ...

Skype, the pioneering and once ubiquitous free video calling service, will be history come May. It was so popular that people used it as a verb: "I'll Skype you in the morning." Microsoft, which ...