Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023
Microsoft has announced it is discontinuing âĶ Thomas Stevenson / The Post Millennial : Microsoft to shut down Skype in two months, company says switch to Teams David Phelan / Forbes : Microsoft Kills Skype: Here's The Deadline And What To Do When Josh Milton / Metro.co.uk : Skype to shut down forever after 14 years Dylan Horetski / Dexerto : Skype is being shut down after 22 years IGN : End of an Era: Microsoft to Shut Down Skype in May and Replace It With Free Version of Microsoft Teams Bill McColl / Yahoo Finance : Microsoft Is Shutting Down Skype To Focus on Its Teams Application Joey Sneddon / OMG! Ubuntu : Skype Hangs Up (For Good) on May 5 - Export Data Before Then! Bluesky: Heidi MacDonald / @comixace : OH here you go: â âMicrosoft is also phasing out support for calling domestic or international numbers.â â An odd thing about the future our tech overlords have decreed is that it has FEWER features. Maybe I was the only person who ever used it. I'm sure I can find a replacement that only costs $100/mo. @knoebel : Microsoft is shutting down Skype on May 5th. For people who don't need blood pressure pills, Skype was the thing your parents used to talk over the Internet back in a time when stuff was âbetterâ. â www.theverge.com/news/621353/ ... [image] @cheesemeister : Well, that's not good. Skype has been my primary way of reaching family since Facebook jumped the shark. Now we're supposed to use Teams? Ugh. [embedded post] Brian Penny / @brianpenny : I'm old enough to remember when Skype was a niche voice chat platform used by gamers to fill in the gap left by game devs who didn't always have voice chat features. â The last time I used it was for a World of Warcraft raid in the 2000s. We are losing Skype, but we will always have LEEROY JENKINS! John Voelcker / @johnvoelcker : So @microsoft.com is killing off #Skype to force all of us to adopt #Teams, possibly the least reliable, glitchiest + most annoying of the half-dozen video-conferencing utilities I use for day-to-day work. â FUCK no. â Signal, here I come. And, no, not WhatsApp either. Telegram ?? @revenger210 : oh damn, this does have me a little nostalgically sad ngl, but also skype became so unusable at the end of it all it really was not worth it one bit â will miss it a bit tho for all the friends i made from across the world through it â www.bbc.com/news/article... Ana Brandusescu / @anabrandusescu : So long Skype. What a journey! â You will never be replaced, especially not by Microsoft Teams. Patrick Seemann / @nohillside.ch : The end of an era. #Skype brought free worldwide telephony and chat for the masses, and the local dial-outs made it even cheap to call non-users anywhere. â On May 5, Microsoft's Skype will shut down for good https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/ 02/on-may-5-microsofts-skype-will-shut- down-for-good/ [image] Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg.com : Add Skype to the list of companies MSFT bought for more than a billion and wound up writing it off: â $7.6 billion for Nokia in 2015 â $6.3 billion for aQuantive in 2006 â www.cnbc.com/2025/02/28/m... Dr. Mark P. Barry / @drmarkpbarry : Microsoft blew $8.5 billion on Skype and spent years killing it appleinsider.com/articles/25/ ... Bill Mitchell / @askbillmitchell : RIP Skype. â Microsoft in its efforts to focus more on their Teams offering has announced it would be shuttering the classic VOIP application it acquired back in 2011 on May 5th. â arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025... Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi.risky.biz : Don't let yourself be fooled by some of today's tech news articles. â Skype was ahead of its competition in terms of features by a full DECADE. It failed because of Microsoft's chaotic leadership. There are numerous similar examples of this. It's Microsoft execs. It's always the Microsoft execs. âĶ Barbara Krasnoff / @barb : So now Skype joins the many apps that are on my long list of âstuff I once used a lot, then only occasionally, then forgot about until one day it was no longer there.â www.theverge.com/news/621353/ ... Arieh Kovler / @ariehkovler.com : This is bad and dumb. Microsoft is killing off Skype in May, just a few weeks' time, to force everyone onto Teams. I've used Skype for 20+ years, still use it all the time for media interviews. Microsoft Teams is awful, and sucks so bad that MS has to kill Skype to keep Teams viable. @msipila : Skype was useful for calls to phone lines still quite recently, but no longer even for that. Sameer Padania / @sdp : Skypo de Mayo... [embedded post] Tim Carmody / @tcarmody : Microsoft's utter mishandling of Skype, ruining the product and ceding ground to competitors exactly when video and voice over internet took off, should make for a good business case study someday Lora Kolodny / @lorak : Skype was a total trailblazer & couldn't survive the competition post acquisition... this will be a case study for the ages. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/28/m... by Jordan Novet at @cnbc.com Scott / @hedge36 : It took Russians to kill ICQ, but only Microsoft could fuck up Skype. Well done, morons. [embedded post] @gdreid13 : actually pretty sad about this, I use skype to dial american numbers from germany, especially businesses and toll-free numbers, and it's pretty handy. RIP skype [embedded post] @trashpandaemoji : 36M DAU? Who the hell still uses skype? @ai-tech-news : ðĶ Microsoft hangs up on Skype: service to shut down May 5, 2025 â After kickstarting the market for making calls over the internet 23 years ago, Skype is closing down. Microsoft, which acquired the messaging and calling app 14 years ago, said it will be retiring it ... #Apps #Social #Microsoft Jeffrey P. Bigham / @jeffreybigham.com : once beloved Skype is out; much maligned Teams is in... a product story of who is the customer. â techcrunch.com/2025/02/28/m... Dave Mark / @davemark.com : Skype shutting down in May? â This string was found in latest Skype for Windows preview that says: â âStarting in May, Skype will no longer be available. Continue your calls and chats in Teams.â â No comment from Microsoft yet. Details here: â www.xda-developers.com/microsoft- ki... âĶ Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Skype was a victim of Microsoft's focus on Windows to the detriment of every other platform and a culture of mismanaging acquisitions under Steve Ballmer. â It was a great product in its heyday but that hasn't been the case in over a decade. @davidgerard.co.uk : Microsoft seems to be shutting down Skype as of May 2025 and telling people to go to Teams â www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/ mi... Mastodon: Anthony Accioly / @anthony@accioly.social : ðŠĶ Skype is soon going to be no more: https://www.microsoft.com/... For a proprietary app, it has done its job and lived a long 21-year life. Do you remember when MSN Messenger was replaced by Skype? â Meanwhile, some of my favourite IRC and XMPP-based IM tools from the '90s are still going strong in OSS land. âĶ Corbin Davenport / @corbin@toot.community : RIP Skype. I still used it for @techtales recordings, and it was maybe the best cross-platform messaging service outside of Discord. https://www.microsoft.com/... @therobburgessshow@newsie.social : RIP Skype! How did this happen!? The pandemic should have been their time to shine, but Zoom totally ate their lunch. I will miss Skype mostly because of its unlimited calling and recording time, while you have to pay to call and record more than 40 minutes on Zoom. Boo! â https://www.bbc.com/... Shirtless Jay / @jay@shirtless.gay : I was never a huge fan of Skype or anything, but at least it always worked reliably for what it was back when I did use it. Unlike its replacement. â https://arstechnica.com/... @zak@infosec.exchange : For a time, âSkypeâ was a verb synonymous with video calling. My grandparents knew how to Skype. That it had to be acquired, neglected, and killed in favor of a Slack clone is a damn shame. â https://arstechnica.com/... @chikorita157@sakurajima.moe : RIP Skype. â My work used to use Skype for Business, until they ditched it for Teams, which is well... a nightmare. â https://arstechnica.com/... @obrhoff@chaos.social : Now, they're killing Skype to replace it with the worst possible replacement. â #skype #microsoftteams #teams â https://www.theverge.com/... David Chartier / @chartier@toot.cafe : An app that kept getting redesigned in the worst ways, over and over, then flubbed a colossal opportunity during the pandemic. Womp womp. #Skype â https://techcrunch.com/... @ryan@dads.cool : incredible that microsoft handled acquiring skype so poorly that they completely fumbled the opportunity presented by the pandemic and lost out to zoom so now they're shutting it down and folding it into teams which sucks ass and is despised by everyone https://arstechnica.com/... Stefan Bohacek / @stefan@stefanbohacek.online : Oh wow. Skype is shutting down after 23 years, 14 years after Microsoft bought it. â âIt's not clear how many people are impacted. The most recent numbers that Microsoft had shared were in 2023, when it said it had more than 36 million users â a long way from Skype's peak of 300 million users.â âĶ Threads: Benedict Evans / @benedictevans : Skype's entire idea became a generic commodity offered for free by dozens or hundreds of companies. ïŋžAnd the revenue model only worked as long as most people didn't use it. You can say plenty about eBay and Microsoft mismanagement, but it's harder to say how they could've made it relevant. âĶ Paul Kedrosky / @pkedrosky : Striking story of plucking failure from the jaws of success, from repeated poor foresight, to dogmatic development for the wrong markets, etc. Skype to Shut 14 Years After Microsoft's $8.5 Billion Purchase https://www.bloomberg.com/... Tom Bender / @tb_99999 : Good example of how being slightly easier to use and more reliable (Zoom) makes alternatives feel intolerable. It's hard to even describe the difference in terms of âfeatures,â but everyone could feel the quality delta instantly. X: @skype : Starting in May 2025, Skype will no longer be available. Over the coming days you can sign in to Microsoft Teams Free with your Skype account to stay connected with all your chats and contacts. Thank you for being part of Skype [video] @lessin : The real story here is that we are at the point that an app with 36M+ DAUs is worthless / easier to shut down than to sell / try to do anything with. Hyperscale puts everything in perspective. [image] Dan Primack / @danprimack : Microsoft is killing Skype, 14 years after buying it for $8.5 billion. Trying to decide if it goes down as a bad or good deal. The bad is obvious (shutdown), but Skype also got MSFT a lot of active customers that it later moved to Teams and other products. Sergi Martorell / @sergimartorell : The end of a European tech success story. I remember the day of the acquisition (by eBay initially). Makes me sad too. It's the way I've connected with my parents for years. Thanks for the good memories Skype! @om : If you want to know what happened to Skype, here is a great little documentary @CNBC did a few years ago. https://www.youtube.com/... @om : Today @microsoft is shutting down @Skype â it makes me incredibly sad, but I am not surprised. Microsoft bought and killed Skype, plain and simple. It is what should be labeled as corporate murder. I could write a ph.d dissertation on this â for now this is all I have to say. Artem Russakovskii / @artemr : Skype has been the worst messenger for years, by a long margin. I won't miss it one bit. It was so so so bad. Josh Elman / @joshelman : I remember when investing in Discord in 2015 how Skype was the juggernaut that gamers used to connect around live gaming. Between Skype, TeamSpeak and Mumble many gamers told me Discord would never have much chance. Less than a decade later.... Christina Warren / @film_girl : Damn. Pour one out for the way we used to all call our friends in other countries for free/super-cheap before FaceTime and WhatsApp. Tom Warren / @tomwarren : MSN Messenger crawled so Skype could walk, so Microsoft Teams could run [image] Matt Day / @mattmday : Skype, at one time Microsoft's biggest acquisition, is shutting down in May: https://www.bloomberg.com/... James Cook / @jamesliamcook : Sad news for the roughly 3,000 people who claim to have been early employees of Skype Tom Warren / @tomwarren : RIP Skype. Microsoft is officially shutting down Skype in May, and replacing it with Microsoft Teams. I spoke to Microsoft about why it's retiring Skype and how it's phasing out its phone calling features. Full details and interview below ð https://www.theverge.com/... LinkedIn: Wayne Fenton : I saw today that Microsoft is shutting down Skype. https://lnkd.in/... I joined eBay fairly soon after they acquired Skype âĶ Heidi Andersen : Skype is one of those products that had tremendous promise when it launched and for those of us who lived far away from home in those early VOIP days âĶ Kwaku Otchere : After 21 years, Microsoft is officially shutting down Skype, with the service set to retire on May 5. âĶ Josephine Pride M.S. : Who remembers using Skype during OIF/OEF deployments? ðââïļ â I just learned today that Skype is shutting down âĶ ShaColby Jackson : I'll be sure to pour one out for Skype. â While most people will see this and think âwow, I remember using Skype back in 2010...â âĶ Scott Rose : The end of Skype arguably the first mainstream VOIP / Video solution to gain wide acceptance, sure Vonage and others came first but Skype shaped the market. âĶ Imeda Imedashvili : Heads up! Skype is officially retiring in May 2025! â For years, Skype has been a staple in the iGaming world, connecting b2b companies, affiliates, tech teams, and operators across the globe. âĶ Bob Smith : This was sad to see. While the #AOL AIM product was my first and favorite chat/connection tool, #Skype quickly took the world by storm because it made internet calling easy. âĶ Patrick Hilt : Today Microsoft announced the discontinuation of Skype effective May 5th. While I left Skype just over 10 years ago âĶ Dennis O. : Skype is dead. â I haven't used it for years, but it is still a piece of history. It was the first voice and video calling app that worked out of the box for non-technical users. âĶ Syed Ahmed Qureshi : Skype is shutting down forever in May 2025. Launched way back in 2003, it was the OG of video calls, then Microsoft scooped it up in 2011 for $8.5 billion. âĶ Nick Davies : I know its old and buggy - but I and many other people still use skype daily to communicate and in the pay per call space. Rough blow. âĶ Jordan Novet : Pouring one out for Skype today. It will become unavailable on May 5, although Microsoft is offering free calling and messaging through its Teams app âĶ Konstantin Selgitski : #Skype holds a special place in Estonia's modern history. Its development in 2003 by Estonian programmers was a significant milestone for the country. âĶ Fernando Van Velzen : Skype dies in May apparently. â We communicate with about 95% of our clients through Skype (and I think most of the igaming industry does too) âĶ Forums: r/roosterteeth : How's Gavin gonna talk to his grandad now? r/popculturechat : Skype announces it will close in May r/TwoBestFriendsPlay : Skype will no longer be available starting from May 2025 r/LinusTechTips : Skype is shutting down for good r/windows : Microsoft is shutting down Skype (5 May 2025 Deadline) r/news : Skype announces it will close in May r/technews : Microsoft is shutting down Skype in favor of Teams r/technology : Microsoft hangs up on Skype: service to shut down May 5, 2025 r/DailyTechNewsShow : Microsoft hangs up on Skype: service to shut down May 5, 2025 r/technology : Exclusive: Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May r/microsoft : Microsoft preparing to shut down Skype in May r/technews : Exclusive: Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May