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

Software giant Microsoft on Wednesday said that, once again, thousands in its global workforce will be laid off across ...

Skype might feel long gone, but Skype for Business Server is still hanging on. That’s true for customers who haven’t gone all ...

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 ...

Microsoft is shutting down Skype in favor of Teams. Skype will be retired on May 5th, and existing users will need to export their data or migrate to Teams.

Microsoft began deprecating these services back in December, preventing users from adding any further credit to their accounts while also putting a halt on buying Skype numbers.Users were still ...

Microsoft killed Skype and trapped her money. She is fighting back. It’s a question we face repeatedly: What do companies owe us when they shut down the products and services we use?

Skype debuted in 2003 and was an early disruptor in online communications, but Microsoft says it's time to close Skype and focus on its Teams video conferencing platform.

In February 2025, 14 years after buying it, Microsoft announced that Skype would go offline on May 5, offering Skype users 60 days to export their data or migrate to the free Teams app for consumers.

While Microsoft declined to share the latest user figures for Skype with Reuters, the company said there would be no job cuts due to the move and that Teams has about 320 million monthly active users.

Skype shut down in May. Here’s how to access some of the data from your old Skype account, if you weren't prepared for the migration to Microsoft Teams.

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.