Microsoft has released a major update for Skype. Version 8.99.76.102 is now available for testing in the Skype Insider program with MSN Weather, enhanced Bing integration, better calls, and more.

Shut down by Microsoft, the beloved video chat app is leaving behind a very different world than the one it gave birth to.

Niklas Zennström may be Sweden's most famous serial entrepreneur. The 37-year-old Stockholm resident co-authored the legendary software used in the Kazaa file-sharing network. After he and his ...

Skype's consumer service was shut down by its parent company Microsoft on Monday. Though President Donald Trump's overzealous antitrust enforcers think popular platforms with large user bases imbue ...

After being around for what seems like forever, it's finally the end of the road for Microsoft's video conferencing and communications app Skype. On February 28, 2025, Jeff Teper, President of ...

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, which Microsoft ...

Skype is trying to make it as easy as possible to use its video calling software and remind people that using the app isn’t complicated. The company tweeted a reminder today that users can now start a ...

Microsoft is officially retiring Skype on May 5, bringing the curtains down on one of the most iconic video-calling platforms of the early internet era. After more than two decades of service, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Skype's homepage in 2011. (David Loh/Reuters) (REUTERS / Reuters) Microsoft shut down Skype, the internet-based phone and video ...

Skype is so popular that in some circles people use the name of the service as a verb. Yet most people use Skype only for making free voice calls, and for conducting occasional video chats between far ...

Microsoft is slowly nudging business customers away from Skype, and over to Teams, by shutting down Skype for Business Online. Skype for Business Online won’t go away immediately; in fact, it won’t ...