Microsoft has announced the retirement of Skype, effective May 5, 2025, as it transitions users to Microsoft Teams.

Skype will be retired on May 5th, and existing users will need to export their data or migrate to Teams.

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For users, Skype will go offline on May 5, when Microsoft replaces it with a free version of Microsoft Teams. Teams has been ... first released in 2003. The online marketplace eBay acquired ...

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Microsoft is closing down Skype, the video-calling service it bought for $8.5 billion in 2011, which had helped spark a transformation in how people communicate online.

Skype, the video-calling service that had hundreds of millions of users, is closing in May, its owner Microsoft has said. It was once one of the world's most popular websites and allowed people to ...

"We will be retiring Skype in May 2025 to focus on Microsoft Teams (free), our modern communications ... became an important new way for sharing online files and data. Those now using Skype ...

Come May 5, it’ll officially be replaced by Microsoft Teams. It’s truly the end of an era. Launched in 2003, Skype quickly became synonymous with video calls online, with “skype-ing ...

Microsoft is shutting down Skype in May and replacing it with the free version of Microsoft ... if you don’t want to move to Teams. Skype will remain online until May 5th, so existing users ...

As the sun slowly sets Skype, some two decades after it started a revolution in online communication, owner Microsoft is ...