But just two years later, eBay took a $1.4 billion write-down on Skype and started to divest its stake in the video chat platform. Microsoft bought the platform for $8.5 billion in 2011.

That was Skype’s last chance to stay relevant, and probably the last nail in its coffin. Microsoft has little use for a free consumer chat app, and none for a second-tier one.

All good things come to an end. Microsoft is pulling the plug on Skype on May 5, nearly 15 years after the tech juggernaut acquired the VoIP European provider from eBay for $8.5 billion. Jeff ...

Why is Skype Shutting Down? Skype, which Microsoft acquired for $8.5 billion back in 2011, has struggled to maintain relevance in the face of competition from apps like Zoom, WhatsApp, and FaceTime.

It’s official: Skype is dead. The long-lived (by internet standards) voice-over-internet app has been put out to pasture by parent company Microsoft. Though Skype was once considered the way to ...

The new Bing chatbot is integrated into Skype chat and can be accessed by typing @Bing in any group conversation. You can ask it anything you would normally ask on Bing.com or Microsoft Edge, such ...

Bing, the Edge browser, and Skype are already available for iPhones and Android phones. If you haven’t already, you’ll need to sign up for the Bing Chat waitlist to get the new AI features.

All Skype contacts appear at the top of the chat pane. Right-click the contact that you wish to eject from the Skype chat and choose "Remove person from this group" to eject the contact from the chat.

You can start a group chat in Skype with up to 600 participants at once. To create a group chat in Skype, tap the "New Chat" icon and choose "New Group Chat." Once you've created a group chat, it ...

You can start a group chat in Skype with up to 600 participants at once. To create a group chat in Skype, tap the "New Chat" icon and choose "New Group Chat." ...

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