Microsoft hangs up on Skype: service to shut down May 5, 2025

Tech Crunch ^ | February 28, 2025 | Paul Sawers

[Red Badger]

Ping!.....................

[SkyDancer]

I use Zoom.

[Red Badger]

Well, of course you do! You’re a pilot!...................

[Resolute Conservative]

Typical, buy out the competition and turn it off so we are left with your crap.

[Williams]

Never heard of Teams.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Author Sawers wrote “Microsoft began depreciating these services back in December...”

A tech guy should know the correct word is “deprecating.” Maybe his MS autocorrect is acting up. But shouldn’t MS “Copilot” have caught that?

I used to use Skype, but now, as a retired guy, I have little need for group video calls. We just use our cell phones and add another caller if needed.

[Red Badger]

Me either.....................

[ConservativeMind]

Wow, I have old chats in Skype on several computers at my home.

I do not want to lose all of that, but I also don’t want to connect them and have Microsoft suck them all in to their cloud crud.

Bad options.

[CodeToad]

Skype was DOA years ago. Teams took over and the competitor Slack is still a better product even though Microsoft’s monopoly has given it more users. Active users, I would say Slack still wins. It’s integration is way beyond Teams.

[ShadowAce]

[PGR88]

Am I a tech illiterate for feeling that there’s no difference whatsoever among Skype, Zoom, Teams, FaceTime ?

[Red Badger]

Only if you let it...............

[ShadowAce]

I use Skype for chat.

Zoom is for on-line meetings/desktop sharing

Teams is a combination of the above two products.

I've never used Facetime.

[SkyDancer]

:D

[ducttape45]

I liked Skype, simple to use. I absolutely hate Teams, way to complicated. When I worked for fedgov many shared the same opinion and refused to even turn on Teams. Maybe someone else can purchase the rights to it and do something with it again.

[ducttape45]

Never heard of Slack. Genuinely curious about it now.

[Hoboto]

It won’t be missed.

MS Teams is probably the best out there. Easy to integrate into other MS products. User friendly. Flexible and customizable.

[Tallguy]

Microsoft kills another acquisition.

[bluescape]

“Never heard of Teams.”

Our plant uses Teams for meetings and whatnot. Any of these work pretty well when you get familiar. Like a lot of these communicating apps it’s the one that’s most widely used that you want to operate with.

Remember ICQ? It was cool when it came out but only if everyone else was using it. Later Yahoo messenger. Now Facebook would serve kind of but again only if your friends are active on it.