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Skype, Microsoft and service shuts down

When Is Skype Shutting Down? What to Know and Do Before It Closes

Learn how to transition from Skype to Microsoft Teams before the service shuts down on May 5, 2025, including steps to export messages and contacts.

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Microsoft shuts down Skype

Say goodbye to Skype, as Microsoft confirmed on social media it is shutting down the internet-based phone and video service in May.

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Microsoft to permanently shut down Skype after buying it for $8.5 billion

The service will shut down roughly 14 years after Microsoft purchased it for $8.5 billion, after calling Skype “the leading Internet communications company” at the time of the acquisition. Microsoft said the move to retire Skype is being made to “streamline” its consumer offerings by focusing on Teams.

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Microsoft shutting down Skype in May

Microsoft is closing down Skype, the video-calling service it bought for $8.5 billion in 2011, which had helped spark a ...

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Skype Is Shutting Down at Microsoft

Skype, the video calling platform that revolutionized online communication across the world after its 2003 launch, will soon ring its final bubbly dial tone, Microsoft has announced.

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