Microsoft is adding two new calling features to Skype for Business Cloud PBX. The company is adding an Auto Attendant feature, providing an automated answering and call routing; plus a Call Queues ...

Skype for Business Online has been officially retired, exactly two years after Microsoft announced its plans to transition customers and their users to a "Teams only" environment. Skype for Business ...

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The company’s Slack rival, launched six months ago, will ‘over time’ become the primary communications client in Office 365. Microsoft’s Skype for Business will be replaced by Teams, which is slated ...

The software giant says that Skype's video-chatting platform will bolster its Kinect and Windows Phone platforms. It will also "connect" Skype users with Xbox Live. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a ...

Microsoft‘s purchase of Skype for a reported $8.5 billion is as good as done. It’s a maneuver that’ll spawn an even bigger company out of two existing tech giants. In addition to the over 600 million ...

Skype will ring for the last time on May 5 as owner Microsoft retires the two-decade-old internet calling service that redefined how people connect across borders. Shutting down Skype will help ...

REDMOND, Wash., and LUXEMBOURG — Oct. 13, 2011 — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) has closed its acquisition of Skype Global S.à r.l. Negotiations of the definitive agreement under which Microsoft ...

Before there was Zoom, Skype was the dominant internet-based phone and video service for the masses. After 22 years of service (14 years under Microsoft), customers were shocked to learn that ...

After kickstarting the market for making calls over the internet 23 years ago, Skype is closing down. Microsoft, which acquired the messaging and calling app 14 years ago, said it will be retiring it ...