Line dead from May
Microsoft closes online telephony service Skype
The US software company Microsoft is closing its online telephony service Skype. "As of May 2025, Skype will no longer be available," the online service X announced on Friday, instructing users to sign up to Microsoft's Teams meeting platform.
The plan had previously been uncovered by a user of the XDA programming forum. According to Heise.de, he took a closer look at the program code of the next version of the Skype application for Windows and came across code fragments for a planned message: Skype will be discontinued in May and users should switch to Microsoft Teams in future.
The measure fits in with Microsoft's product strategy: Skype has been left behind for some time in favor of Microsoft Teams, which can also be used for (video) calls. While Teams has been actively supplied with updates, Skype has received little maintenance.
Grace period for corporate users
Corporate users will apparently be able to use Skype for a little longer, with the plan to continue until fall 2025. Then they will probably have to consider switching to Microsoft Teams.
Skype was a pioneer of voice-over-IP telephony and worked with direct connections between users when it was founded in 2003 - the developers came from the file-sharing scene and previously worked on the peer-to-peer service Kazaa. In 2011, Skype was bought by Windows and Office group Microsoft for the then considerable sum of 8.5 billion US dollars.
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