I've used Skype for years, but its convoluted user interface and awkward address book, links to Microsoft account, have turned me into a Viber user. Viber's user interface is clean and simple and the ...

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 ...

Microsoft has confirmed to The Verge that Skype will shut down on May 20th, 2025, with the free version of Microsoft Teams for consumers as the designated successor. The company said, "Skype users ...

Long before there was Zoom, FaceTime, Teams, and whatever Google’s decided to call its voice and video calling service this week, there was Skype. When it first launched in 2003 as a way to make voice ...

On February 28, 2025, Microsoft announced its decision to discontinue Skype. Skype revolutionized computer-to-computer communication to the point where making a video call became synonymous with ...

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