But I can’t pretend Skype was all sunshine and rainbows, even before the pandemic lockdowns and the rise of its chief competitor, Zoom. I remember sitting for ages waiting for a call to connect ...

Shut down by Microsoft, the beloved video chat app is leaving behind a very different world than the one it gave birth to.

Some would say that Microsoft fumbled big time when Skype had its time to shine during the pandemic in 2020, but was overshadowed by Zoom. Zoom does basically the same thing as Skype, but for ...

The world was under lockdown. This should have been the time for Skype to shine, but instead, Zoom took over, becoming the go-to communications app. It was simple to use, whereas Skype was cumbersome.

The first public beta for Skype went live in August 2003 and enabled users to call from one PC to another, which was ...