You can search conversations on Skype to find particular words or phrases in text chats up to six months old.

After 22 years of making long-distance chatter feel like you’re in the same room, Skype is finally taking its last breath. Losing years of chat history can sting, but this isn't a sudden shutdown. You ...

Microsoft has announced that Skype will officially retire on May 5, 2025, marking the end of the once-dominant video-calling platform. The company is suggesting users transition to Microsoft Teams ...

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 ...

If they change on other platforms, Skype for iPhone will grab the latest avatar; they’re now finally being synced properly. Next, Skype is promising faster chat load times. In particular, when you ...

As reported on earlier this morning, Skype has released a beta version of its popular VoIP and instant-messaging software that includes video chat capabilities. Other instant-messaging services with ...

To video chat on an Android device, you'll need to download a third-party app like Facebook Messenger or Zoom.

If you've been working from in the past few weeks, the chances are that you attended at least one meeting via Zoom video call. Zoom rose rapidly to popularity during the COVID-19 crisis, as it's an ...

PHOENIX--For the tens of millions of Skype users worldwide, making calls over the Internet is a free or cheap experience that has the AT&Ts and Verizons of the world wondering how they're going to ...

Communicating across Microsoft apps gets a little easier today as the company finishes making Teams and Skype interoperable. This means Teams users can now chat and call with Skype users, and vice ...

At last, Skype’s Android app supports video calling, but it’s only available on four phones for now. Video calling works over Wi-Fi and 3G, and is supported on the HTC Desire S, Sony Ericsson Xperia ...