{"id":55655,"date":"2025-05-05T16:09:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T16:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/skype-shuts-down-after-more-than-2-decades"},"modified":"2025-05-09T20:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:18:03","slug":"skype-shuts-down-after-more-than-2-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/skype-shuts-down-after-more-than-2-decades","title":{"rendered":"Skype shuts down after more than 2 decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Skype, the iconic internet chat and phone service owned by Microsoft, will be shut down on Monday after around 22-year service term.<\/p>\n<p>A group of engineers launched the popular chat application, and Microsoft purchased it in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 28 this year, Microsoft announced that Skype has reached the end of its life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Starting in May 2025, Skype will no longer be available,&#8221; the announcement read.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft offered users to sign in to Microsoft Teams Free with their Skype accounts to stay connected with all their chats and contacts.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said with Teams, users will have access to the same core features they use in Skype such as one-on-one calls, and group calls, messaging, and file sharing.<\/p>\n<p>It added in a separate statement: &#8220;After May 5, 2025, the Skype Dial Pad will be available to remaining paid users from the Skype web portal and within Teams.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Lesotho<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. 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