Microsoft will end Skype in May, leaving some users upset

The Skype logo is pictured at Skype headquarters in Luxembourg on May 10, 2011. Microsoft says the free video calling service will end in May. Anonymous/AP

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Skype, the pioneering and once ubiquitous free video calling service, will be history come May. It was so popular that people used it as a verb: “I’ll Skype you in the morning.”

Microsoft, which acquired Skype in 2011 for $8.5 billion, announced in a post on X on Friday that the iconic voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) service would soon go dark. It encouraged Skype users to instead migrate to a free version of Microsoft

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