Microsoft completely shut down Skype on May 5, 2025

[y_p_w]

I remember using it a couple of decades ago for work calls. Back then I was primarily using it for audio, but eventually the video quality improved. I think there was a time when they were trying to charge for international calls using Skype to traditional phone numbers.

https://www.ign.com/articles/end-of...place-it-with-free-version-of-microsoft-teams

 

[wwillson]

Teams runs the world now. It's pretty slick. When I want to talk or chat with a customer at work, I just hit them on Teams. Many of our customers are federated with us so communication is instant.

 

[Pew]

I thought they shut that down years ago. Maybe it was Skype for business in thinking of.

 

[AutoMechanic]

I still have the app on my phone. I will miss it but I also haven’t used it in probably 7-8 years at least. I mainly had it for my friends who didn’t have Apple devices but now pretty much all of them do so we use FaceTime.

 

[edyvw]

Teams runs the world now. It's pretty slick. When I want to talk or chat with a customer at work, I just hit them on Teams. Many of our customers are federated with us so communication is instant.

We use Teams, and I absolutely hate it.
People who don't have a life constantly on it, come morning: "Did you see my message? "No, I did not. I check teams after 9am." I go on teams and a message was sent at 01.32am.
Or better, they call me on Teams, sitting 20ft away in an office. I simply refuse to answer.

 

[wwillson]

We use Teams, and I absolutely hate it.
People who don't have a life constantly on it, come morning: "Did you see my message? "No, I did not. I check teams after 9am." I go on teams and a message was sent at 01.32am.
Or better, they call me on Teams, sitting 20ft away in an office. I simply refuse to answer.

That doesn't sound like a Teams problem.

 

[Urshurak776]

I didn't even think Skype still existed.

Everything we do at work is via TEAMS now. Seems to run the business world. We had ZOOM for a while, but that faded away....

 

[edyvw]

That doesn't sound like a Teams problem.

No. but Microsoft gave tool to these idiots to oppress us

 

[edyvw]

I didn't even think Skype still existed.

Everything we do at work is via TEAMS now. Seems to run the business world. We had ZOOM for a while, but that faded away....

We use both. Teams is more common in to chat between etc. I still think Zoom is better when making videos, or strictly doing video conference.

 

[supton]

Teams is... eh. It likes to shut down all on its own. I'll get notifications (if I happen to notice them, that is) but for some reason, it'll suddenly be missing from the taskbar. Maybe that got fixed with the last update.

And finding things in a channel... it's a mess if you ask me. Start a new thread, with a new question, but then good luck if the project has multiple threads with answers scattered about. Great for the moment, lousy for looking back. I've been trying to use GitLab lately and I think it's better, but I won't say it's the best. But I've been avoiding Jama and SmartSheets like the plague.

While Teams is great for conferencing, I don't get how it is better than email--if you need to drop me a line, well do so--over email. I can then make a folder in my Outlook and file away the email appropriately, that way thread drift can be filed in the proper folder.

 

[macarose]

Wow! I remember thinking that the world was going to make Skype the new phone standard.

It still blows my mind that VOIP technologies have been around for decades and yet folks still shell out big money for phone plans. The free market should have been given the means to offer cheap and effective communications solutions. But a few corporate behemoths seem to game the system heavily in their favor.

So first Skype. Maybe Ooma next. Then who knows. I'm sure basic telephony needs will be bundled into every big money platform in due time.

 

[supton]

It still blows my mind that VOIP technologies have been around for decades and yet folks still shell out big money for phone plans.

Kinda stuck, I like my fiber, allows me to work from home. And I get sporadic cell coverage at home. So I get basic phone over fiber.

 

[Greenbeforeblue]

Something else I never knew about that's gone. I wish I could say the same thing about the Kardashians. Everything I know about them has been learned against my will.

 

[dishdude]

While Teams is great for conferencing, I don't get how it is better than email--if you need to drop me a line, well do so--over email. I can then make a folder in my Outlook and file away the email appropriately, that way thread drift can be filed in the proper folder.

Yeah I get some requests over Teams chat that I will sometimes ask the person to send me an email on so it doesn't get forgotten about. A Teams chat should be for a quick question, nothing that requires follow up or a paper trail.

 

[edyvw]

Teams is... eh. It likes to shut down all on its own. I'll get notifications (if I happen to notice them, that is) but for some reason, it'll suddenly be missing from the taskbar. Maybe that got fixed with the last update.

And finding things in a channel... it's a mess if you ask me. Start a new thread, with a new question, but then good luck if the project has multiple threads with answers scattered about. Great for the moment, lousy for looking back. I've been trying to use GitLab lately and I think it's better, but I won't say it's the best. But I've been avoiding Jama and SmartSheets like the plague.

While Teams is great for conferencing, I don't get how it is better than email--if you need to drop me a line, well do so--over email. I can then make a folder in my Outlook and file away the email appropriately, that way thread drift can be filed in the proper folder.

I mean, it is Microsoft after all.

 

[Rand]

Kinda stuck, I like my fiber, allows me to work from home. And I get sporadic cell coverage at home. So I get basic phone over fiber.

wi fi calling?

 

[supton]

wi fi calling?

Probably could. Can I reuse my existing handsets, or is it stuck connecting to a cell?

 

[wavinwayne]

I had to use Skype for a couple of years 2011-2012 to collaborate with a manufacturing partner in China. I have bad memories of both the job and Skype. Now I use Teams whenever a video call is absolutely necessary but I will always prefer in person face to face meetings.

 

[OVERKILL]

The Skype, then Skype for Business/Lync, then Teams/Teams Personal/Team for School and Business transition was a bit of a gong show. Microsoft was really pushing for people to transition from Skype to Teams, but then Office 365 still ships with Skype for Business, while they are telling you that you should be using Teams

 

[andrew_j]

Teams runs the world now. It's pretty slick. When I want to talk or chat with a customer at work, I just hit them on Teams. Many of our customers are federated with us so communication is instant.

Teams was a great ripoff of Slack. It works okay.