Join , subscribers and get a daily digest of news, geek trivia, and our feature articles. By submitting your email, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. After some delays, Microsoft is finally going to kill Skype Classic on November 1. Skype Classic is also known as Skype 7. And, on November 1, , it will stop working. Microsoft considers it outdated, legacy software. Not everyone will have to upgrade from Skype Classic to Skype 8 immediately.
And, even if you dodge the initial wave on November 1, we expect Microsoft will upgrade you within the few weeks after that. Skype 8 is the new version of Skype. This version of Skype has been rebuilt from the ground up. Skype Classic can no longer be downloaded from the official Skype download page. Here are just a few features available in Skype 7, but not in the new Skype People have been using them for a long time, and everyone uses different ones.
Microsoft has added some powerful new features to Skype lately, like a built-in call recording feature. It seemed to work fine when I tested it. Microsoft has tried to ax Skype Classic before, but users complained. Back in July , Microsoft announced that Skype Classic would stop working on September 1, and users would have to upgrade to Skype 8.
After many vocal user complaints and even a Change. Skype Classic would continue to live while Microsoft worked on adding some user-requested features to Skype 8.
Unfortunately, Microsoft set a new kill-date: November 1. Will Microsoft follow through this time? No one knows for sure, but we expect Microsoft will make good on its threat. Discord and Telegram are pretty popular, as is Facebook Messenger.
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