No more, end: Microsoft Skype will be hired in May 2025 after over 20 years. Windows Preview users already get the news of switching to teams.
Bye, bye, Skype! The once so popular messenger service from US giant Microsoft will be switched off in May 2025. Skype started in 2003 and was taken over by Microsoft in 2011, but now the story of the former cult messenger is over.
Microsoft Skype integrated in Windows 10 in 2015. But a short time later the tech giant followed a different approach.
Out for Skype! Microsoft teams started in 2017
Teams started in 2017 as a Skype successor and was supposed to compete with Slack. Although teams were integrated with Windows 11 in 2021, Skype survived surprisingly long. However, Skype was never able to keep up with Facetime or Google services and suffered from Microsoft's mobile strategy errors. Teams, on the other hand, were strongly positioned in the business area. Today, many companies also use teams as a chat and meeting platform in Germany.
Skype will be finally discontinued from May 2025. Microsoft recommends migration to teams because many contacts are already there. There has been no official statement from Microsoft to the Skype at the end of 2025.
