The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum / Microsoft Hanging Up Permanently On Skype

**Posted by RadioActive** February 28, 2025 6:16 pm

If you use this service to bypass long distance or for phone calls, you'll soon be getting a permanent busy signal, as Skype gets spiked. Not radio related, per se, but an important tech story for some and in a Zoom-world, kind of the end of an era.

Microsoft shutting down Skype in May

**Posted by The Weed** February 28, 2025 7:51 pm

Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Zencastr, WhatsApp and more have overtaken Skype. It always amazed me that Zoom was ready when Covid showed up.

**Posted by RadioAaron** February 28, 2025 8:01 pm

The Weed wrote:
Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Zencastr, WhatsApp and more have overtaken Skype. It always amazed me that Zoom was ready when Covid showed up.

Incredible timing.

**Posted by haydenmatthews14** March 2, 2025 11:52 pm

I don’t use Skype or Microsoft Teams. I use FaceTime which is more easier unless someone in my family has an iPhone.

**Posted by Radiowiz** March 3, 2025 12:08 am

Let's Zoom in on the options and Face the fact that Skype was done once the Pandemic first came to be.
I don't know anyone who said "let's Skype".
Zoom seemed to be everywhere, for both business and personal use.
There were a few Facetimers, but Zoom really seemed to take over in a major way.

When I first heard about Zoom, I wondered whatever happened to Skype. It was there, but I honestly could not find anyone using it.