Skype is usually free, but if you want to use Skype to call phone numbers in the US or around the world, you'll need a subscription or Skype Credit.

Any time your computer seems to be fighting against itself by blocking certain functions, such as your webcam operating properly with Skype, you are having some sort of software conflict. This type of ...

You can easily change your Skype profile picture to customize your account's appearance on desktop or mobile.

Science fiction movies and television shows of the past often depicted characters talking to each other through video phones, an idea that seemed farfetched for many years. In today's world, Skype ...

Skype is working to make is service more broadly accessible, Microsoft announced today, detailing a new feature that will allow users to invite anyone – even those who don’t have a Skype account – to ...

As Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) bids farewell to Skype today, May 5, the move marks not just the end of an internet era but a major turning point in the company's communication strategy — and ...

It’s relatively easy these days to find critics of Skype, the popular online calling service that Microsoft Corp. acquired in 2011 for $8.5 billion. Former devotees routinely gripe on social media ...

Microsoft-owned Skype is literally gaining a zoom feature – not of course to be confused with Zoom, the company that eclipsed Skype as the verb for video calling during the past two years. Skype's new ...

Is Skype dead—or just misunderstood? Once the king of video calling, Skype was dethroned by competitors like Zoom, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. But what really happened to Skype? Why did it lose its ...

Skype is best known for being a video calling app and, to some extent, that’s because its messaging feature set has been a bit underdeveloped. Today, the company is working to change that image with a ...

All good things come to an end. Jeff Teper, president of collaborative apps and platforms at Microsoft, revealed in a Feb. 28 blog post that the company would be retiring the service in order to ...

It took Skype several years, but the popular Internet communications service provider may have finally devised a growth strategy. The company plans to roll out corporate subscription packages in the ...