Skype, the once-revolutionary voice-over internet platform, will cease to exist. Those still using it to make calls should check out these other options. When Skype debuted in 2003, it was the ...

Windows users have all been there-- the dreaded error message, otherwise known as the “Blue Screen of Death.” After 40 years, Microsoft is changing the design of the error screen, including the color.

Microsoft shut down Skype, the internet-based phone and video call service, on Monday, 14 years after the tech company bought it for $8.5 billion. Microsoft announced in February that Skype users ...

Microsoft has made Subscription Editions (SE) of Exchange Server and Skype for Business Server generally available, marking ...

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.

All good things come to an end. Microsoft is pulling the plug on Skype on May 5, nearly 15 years after the tech juggernaut acquired the VoIP European provider from eBay for $8.5 billion. Jeff ...

Skype numbers can be ported to a phone carrier or any number of other VoIP services. But you’ll have to start the process through the new provider, not Skype. Google Voice.

Skype will ring for the last time on May 5 as owner Microsoft retires the two-decade-old internet calling service that redefined how people connect across borders. Shutting down Skype will help ...

Skype has tried to be all things to all people, “and almost all those things are executed better elsewhere,” says Matthew Culnane, ...

Skype, the pioneer video-calling site from the early 2000s, is shutting down on Monday after 23 years in business as rivals like Microsoft Teams and Zoom have squashed the platform’s userbase.

Skype's lack of clearly defined encryption and dependence on proprietary protocols isn't good enough in 2016. In re-engineering the Skype network, Microsoft could, and should, ...

Skype’s resistance to government monitoring, part of the company ethos when European engineers founded it in 2003, resulted from both uncommonly strong encryption and a key technical feature ...