News & Reviews:   Skype

This month, Microsoft has officially retired the once popular internet voice, video and chat service, Skype. The change will affect both free and paid users of Skype, though Skype for Business will remain unaffected.

Looks like you’ll be able to replace your background while you’re in a video call on Skype for Mac very soon, based on a statement by thurrott.com. The aforementioned feature is currently being rolled out, and it will be available for everyone to use very soon.

Now that many of us are working from home, communication software is seeing an exponential spike in usage. But the popular option now, Zoom, has been getting a lot of backlash for privacy issues. To provide you with alternatives, we introduced eight other similar software last week. Now there's a new alternative through Skype, which has just joined the free video conferencing gang with a new feature called Meet Now.