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Microsoft hangs up on Skype: Service to shut down May 5, 2025
Microsoft is retiring Skype from active duty 14 years after acquiring it, with users given nine weeks to decide their next move.
Many likened Teams to a Slack clone, but the bigger ambition was to build a platform that would give space for collaboration and communication across a wide range of Microsoft and other apps, and that included video and text chatting — a direct overlap with Skype. At the start of the pandemic in March, 2020, the company revealed that Skype had grown 70% month-on-month to 40 million daily users, as people sought ways to stay in touch with loved ones during lockdown — a trend that generated similar surges in rival platforms such as Zoom. Prior to joining TechCrunch in June 2022, Paul had gained more than a decade’s experience covering consumer and enterprise technologies for The Next Web (now owned by the Financial Times) and VentureBeat.
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