Microsoft will stop Skype in May

“Since May, Skype will no longer be available. Continue calls and chats in teams, ”said the report. It also establishes that “some of the user’s friends” have already changed to the free version of the equipment. ” Presumably, we are talking about the user contact list.

Microsoft did not respond to the XDA application.

Later, on the Skype page on social network X confirmed that the service will stop working. The Microsoft representative told CNBC that this will happen on May 5. “We feel that now is the time, because we can be easier for the market of our client base, and we can quickly introduce more innovations simply focusing on the teams,” said Jeff Now, president of Microsoft 365, in an interview with CNBC.

In the next few days, Microsoft will provide users with the opportunity to enter equipment using accounting Skype. Skype’s contacts and chats will be postponed, and all data can be exported, said the company’s representative.

• Skype’s video call service was launched in 2003. In 2011, Microsoft acquired it. The popularity of the service gradually decreased, especially after the appearance of Microsoft equipment in 2017. During the Pandemia of the Coronavirus in 2022, the Skype competitor, the Zoom video video service, gained popularity.
• One of Skype’s precursors was the output of the Windows 11 operating system, which integrated the integration with the equipment. In the latest version of the operating system, Skype joined.
• In February 2025, the Tagan Court of Moscow fined Skype for 500 thousand rubles for violation of the rules for the dissemination of information.