RIP Skype, Once Popular 22-Year-Old Voice/Video Calling App Is Getting Shut Down in May

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Last week, code was discovered in a recent Windows 11 preview update revealing Microsoft's decision to kill off the video/voice calling app, but an official announcement has since been made not only confirming the end of Skype but also clarification for its users that their accounts and data can be transferred over to Microsoft Teams for free.

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The only shock is that they didn't officially roll this into Teams years ago and just merge the two.

But, it's Microsoft, I guess I'm not really shocked. The amount of crapware that exists in the 365 suite is ~amazing~, and a lot of it is duplicated functionality.
 
I'm truly amazed it lasted this long. I expected it to be discontinued shortly after MS bought it. I do wonder if its staff has, or will be, transferred over to Teams as well.
 
I used to use MSN Messenger, but they shut it down when they bought skype, so I reluctantly switched over, and now they are shutting down skype too. Brilliant.
 
For personal use discord has replaced Skype. For work we use Teams. No markt letft for a stagnated Skype.
 
Ditchinit said:
... meanwhile, the phone on my desk collects dust.
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Pretty much. Where I work our phones are gone and it just rings in teams.

Hot tip... put your work phone on do not disturb allow your contacts and teams to work. Then go to your teams admin and ask them to put a random number prompt for regular calls transferring into teams. Ive gone from a dozen spam calls a day ringing on my phone to literally zero.

When my work line or office line is called they get a prompt. Press number x to continue. Where x is a random single digit number. I freaking love it.
 
The last time I used Skype was in the late 2000s or early 2010s at my QA software tester job. We used it to communicate within teams, across teams, and with clients. Never really cared for it. Won't be sad to see it gone. I never had the displeasure of using Teams.
 
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