122) showcases innovations that are streamlining HR operations. Microsoft has shutdown Skype with a shrug, pointing us to Team like it’s the only alternative on the block. This doesn’t have to the ...

archived forever on the great file server in the sky. Software giant Microsoft shut down Skype on Monday, 5 May 2025 and is directing users to switch to its Slack rival, Microsoft Teams.

Shortly after my mother’s 89th birthday I called her landline via Skype. It was our last such communication ever. Don’t worry, mom’s fine. Skype, however, is as dead as the dire wolf. Deader, probably ...

When Skype debuted in 2003, it was the first time I remember feeling that an individual app—and not just the broader internet—was radically disrupting communications. Thanks to its ...

Before we were wedged into "Brady Bunch" squares on Zoom and Microsoft Teams, before we grew accustomed to summoning friends and family anytime, anywhere with FaceTime, there was Skype.

Skype has seen it all. High-pressure job interviews. Awkward transatlantic family gatherings. Long-distance love affairs (and breakups). Many of our big life events have been bookended by Skype ...

Skype is a hybrid instant messaging and voice chat application that allows users to connect with one another from any global location with Internet access. With over 663 million users, Skype is ...

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 ...

Today, Microsoft shuttered Skype. The 22 year old telecommunications program is survived by its many successors, including the detestable Microsoft Teams. Skype was first released in 2003 ...

Source Images: Prapat Aowsakorn via Canva.com, AJK via Canva.com, Oleksa via Canva.com) Editor at Large Shortly after my mother’s 89th birthday I called her landline via Skype. It was our last ...

Microsoft's shutdown of Skype on May 5 sent millions of users scrambling to find an alternative to the pioneering internet phone service. Skype, which Microsoft bought in 2011, was beloved by a ...