Microsoft is pulling the plug on Skype. Skype will remain online until May 5, giving users a limited window to decide: Move to Microsoft Teams or take their chat history and contacts elsewhere. The ...

All good things come to an end. Jeff Teper, president of collaborative apps and platforms at Microsoft, revealed in a Feb. 28 blog post that the company would be retiring the service in order to ...

After 23 years of connecting people around the world, Skype, the popular video-calling service, is shutting down. Microsoft, the parent company, confirmed that the official sunset date for the service ...

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 ...

After kickstarting the market for making calls over the internet 23 years ago, Skype is closing down. Microsoft, which acquired the messaging and calling app 14 years ago, said it will be retiring it ...