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 ...

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Zoom Video Communications Inc., maker of the ubiquitous videoconferencing tool that made a global pandemic less isolating, just reported another quarter of explosive growth. While its business may not ...

Microsoft has announced the official shutdown date for Skype, the once-revolutionary calling and messaging service that disrupted traditional telecoms. The 21-year-old platform will cease operations ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. If the coronavirus pandemic had swept across the world in 2011, everyone would ...

The big picture: Microsoft appears to be seizing a window of opportunity for Skype as rival Zoom struggles to sustain and protect its surging 200 million+ userbase from the recently discovered ...

In the aughts and early 2010s, Skype dominated the world of video calling. But amid the recent boom in FaceTimes, HouseParties, and Zooms thanks to coronavirus-necessitated social distancing, it's ...

Skype is trying to make it as easy as possible to use its video calling software and remind people that using the app isn’t complicated. The company tweeted a reminder today that users can now start a ...

Microsoft's Skype has seen a spike in usage as the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has forced social distancing, but the go-to app for most people has been Zoom, whose user numbers have exploded in the ...

The popular Zoom video meeting app went out this week, for many on of all days, the first day of school, and people freaked out. With stay-at-home remote work and learning the new norm during this ...

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