LONDON (AP) — Skype is dead. What now? Microsoft’s shutdown of Skype on May 5 sent millions of users scrambling to find an alternative to the pioneering internet phone service. Skype ...

After over two decades of ups and downs for the video call platform, Microsoft is officially shutting down Skype. The platform boomed in the 2010s and has since become less appealing as an option ...

Skype is no more, as Microsoft is retiring the once-popular video calling service on Monday. Shutting down Skype will help the software giant focus on its homegrown Teams service by simplifying ...

The service expanded to include video calls after eBay acquired Skype in 2005. A 3D printed Skype logo is placed in front of a keyboard in this illustration taken April 12, 2020. Photo by Reuters When ...

A web camera is seen in front of a Skype logo in this photo illustration taken in Zenica, May 26, 2015. A logo sits illuminated outside the Microsoft booth at ISE 2024 on January 30, 2024 in ...

Microsoft's Skype has finally shut down, concluding its 22-year tenure as the once-dominant internet calling and messaging service. Microsoft acquired Skype in 2011 for $8.5 billion in what was ...

After nearly 22 years of connecting people across the globe, Skype is shutting down on May 5, marking the end of an era for one of the pioneers of internet communication. Launched in 2003 ...

I’m talking about Skype, possibly the most popular video messaging service when it was launched. Developed by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, along with four Estonian developers, in 2003 ...