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Microsoft announced it would shut down Skype, the video-calling platform it acquired for $8.5 billion in 2011. Services will officially be retired on May 5, 2025, with users encouraged to migrate to ...

The Skype video call and messaging service is shutting down today, 14 years after replacing Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger. Skype was first released in August 2003 by a collective of Swedish, ...

Microsoft warns that enabling the Teams Meeting Add-in can prevent access to Outlook Classic, with a temporary fix via update ...

Skype is no more, as Microsoft is retiring the once-popular video calling service on Monday. Shutting down Skype will help the software giant focus on its homegrown Teams service by simplifying its ...