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Skype Will Shut Down on May 5, As Microsoft Shifts to Teams

TechRepublic

Microsoft 365 head Jeff Teper encouraged Skype users to migrate their Skype contacts to Teams. Microsoft is pivoting to support Teams instead.

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How to use Skype

Digital Trends

Anyone can download and use Skype to video chat live or make a regular voice call. Best of all, it's free.

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Skype now has Microsoft Teams’ fun Together Mode

The Verge

Skype’s new Together Mode option featuring Verge staff. Microsoft is bringing one of its best Teams video calling features over to Skype this week. Together Mode, which uses AI to segment your face and shoulders and place you together with other people in a virtual space, is now available in Skype. GIF: Microsoft.

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New to TechSoup: Skype Credit and Subscriptions

Tech Soup

Eligible organizations can now request donations of credit vouchers or subscriptions for Microsoft's Skype. For those unfamiliar with Skype, it provides voice calling, video calling, instant messaging, and more, allowing users to communicate with other Skype users and with mobile phones and landlines. Learn more about Skype.

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Microsoft removes ads from Skype to improve user experience and compete with rivals

TechSpot

Skype's latest update is now ad-free for users in the Insider program, affecting both the main chat interface and channels. Read Entire Article

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Microsoft is not giving up on Skype, announces several new features and design changes for the app

TechSpot

Skype is getting yet another revamp as part of Microsoft’s efforts to modernize the app. Chief among them is the updated call stage feature, which is getting Zoom-like layouts for arranging participants in small/large grid, speaker view, alongside the recently added Together mode. The interface will also let users disable.

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Skype is getting another redesign with new themes and features

The Verge

The software maker is teasing plans for an “improved, faster, reliable, and super modern-looking Skype.” Microsoft says it has been listening to feedback and, over the next few months, will start rolling out changes to modernize Skype. The most important part of Skype, what Microsoft calls the call stage, is getting the most attention.

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