Skype was an a pioneer in live video-calling that was bought by Microsoft in 2011, but was later overtaken by competing services.

A fter just over two decades of operation, 14 of which were under Microsoft's ownership, Skype is finally shutting down. At ...

Skype is among the world’s most long-lasting digital brands. But other mobile apps took off faster, and Skype didn’t see the Covid bump that Zoom did.

Microsoft was too busy adding emoji and trying to compete with the rise of WhatsApp, FaceTime, Snapchat, and Facebook ...

At its peak, Skype had more than 300 million monthly active users and was synonymous with internet-based voice and video calling ... a key role in popularizing VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol ...

Skype, the pioneering and once ubiquitous free video calling service ... X on Friday that the iconic voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) service would soon go dark. In the more than two decades ...

Microsoft says it will shut down the once popular voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) and video calling tool Skype in May ...

Founded in 2003 by a group of engineers in Tallinn, Estonia, Skype was a pioneer in making telephone calls using the internet instead of landlines. It relied on VOIP, voice over internet protocol ...

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 ...

has really driven almost all of the traffic to VoIP.” The admission of consumers moving on from calling phone numbers from Skype is also a large part of why the service is shutting down nearly ...

Skype was a tool for people to call one another online for free. The quirky name stood for "sky peer to peer," a reference to the service's underlying voice over internet protocol, or VoIP ...