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Skype to shut its doors in May

ended 28. February 2025

Skype is set to close its doors in May, Microsoft, its owner has announced. Once the go-to internet chat and phone service, and bought by Microsoft for over £6bn, its market share has subsequently been eroded by WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Newspage asked business owners for their thoughts on the decision, the implacable march of tech and their feelings of nostalgia, which will appear below until midnight.

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Kate Allen
Owner at Finest Stays
Skype shutting down feels like saying goodbye to an old Nokia 3310. Once indestructible, now obsolete. For those of us who hit our 20s in the 2000s, it was the cutting-edge way to keep in touch, a digital lifeline before smartphones took over. Skype is just another relic in the ever-upgrading archive of our digital lives. So long, snake, and so long, Skype.