Skype is dead and giving way for Microsoft Teams. If you're planning to jump ship, here are some great alternatives.

“Skype calls have excellent sound quality and are highly secure with end-to-end encryption,” Skype’s homepage read in 2004.

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

Skype, the video-calling service that at one time had hundreds of millions of users, is closing in May, its owner Microsoft has said. It was once on ...

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Skype (MSFT) is chirping its last goodbye. Its parent company, Microsoft, announced on Friday that Skype will be going ...

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In May 2025, after more than 20 years, the time of Skype comes to an end. A piece of network culture is leaving, time for an ...

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Microsoft has decided that it no longer wants anything to do with Skype. The company continues to press forward with its ...

It's true: Skype, the unruly and sometimes unloved communication platform, made it possible and okay to communicate with anyone via video on a PC. It was the realization of a dream that stretched back ...

and — crucially — documenting their “success in hacking” people’s accounts on Skype network, which was billed as the "most secure method of communication" because Skype is encrypted.