Microsoft is Killing Off Skype in May 2025

Oh well...

Published on March 7, 2025 By LightStar In Everything Else

Microsoft is shutting down Skype, the internet-based phone and video service that was once the dominant way of staying connected in the mid 2000s. Check out the External Link above...

But others and I have been checking out similar products and the best one found is Signal, go ahead and check it out: Signal >> Download Signal

It is quite similar to Skype and you can send files up to 100MB.

Enjoy!

Comments

DrJBHL

on Mar 07, 2025

The writing was on the wall once MS put Teams on the market. They bought Skype in 2011 for $8.5 billion...but later they stopped developing it...beyond me, honestly as Teams isn't very convenient to use.

Oh well, who understands MS?

impinc

on Mar 10, 2025

Peetah, I need your help with this : r ...

3java3

on Mar 10, 2025

Did they reverse engineer Skype, and then developed the Teams mistakenware? OR was Teams a tweaked version of Skype with a different UI?

DrJBHL

on Mar 11, 2025

3java3

reply 3

Did they reverse engineer Skype, and then developed the Teams mistakenware? OR was Teams a tweaked version of Skype with a different UI?

Teams was developed as part of Microsoft 365, and Skype was left to wither. The Wikipedia has the whole story.

Frogboy

on Apr 11, 2025

This...kind of makes me sad.

Jafo

on Apr 12, 2025

All the communication proggies we have used over the decades ... all gone [or going].

Next step is I'll get a message "Teams will soon not be able to be used on Windows 7 machines. Please purchase a new computer to run Windows 11".

Fuck that.... I have them beat [almost]. I run Windows 10 Pro 64 in a VM on my Windows 7 Ult 64 machine...

Up their nose with a rubber hose, I say ...

DrJBHL

on Apr 12, 2025

Jafo

reply 6

Up their nose with a rubber hose, I say ...

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