But I can’t pretend Skype was all sunshine and rainbows, even before the pandemic lockdowns and the rise of its chief competitor, Zoom. I remember sitting for ages waiting for a call to connect ...

Shut down by Microsoft, the beloved video chat app is leaving behind a very different world than the one it gave birth to.

After 23 years of connecting people around the world, Skype, the popular video-calling ... take notes and create custom background images. Zoom is another popular web-conferencing tool.

Microsoft released the Teams software in March 2017, six years after acquiring Skype. Similarly to its aforementioned rival Zoom, the 2020 pandemic propelled Microsoft Teams to become one of the ...

The world was under lockdown. This should have been the time for Skype to shine, but instead, Zoom took over, becoming the go-to communications app. It was simple to use, whereas Skype was cumbersome.