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Kristina Terech

Remember Skype? Well now it’s ad-free again, which will be a refreshing change for Windows 11 users

A couple sitting on a couch (a man and a woman), with the man holding a laptop and they're both looking at it.

Remember Skype? Well, it’s still around, and while the likes of Google Meet and Microsoft Teams might hog the communications spotlight now, Microsoft is still working on Skype - and is hoping to make it more popular by killing the ads in the app and adding (you guessed it) AI features.

In the recently published release notes for Skype Insider build 8.125, Microsoft outlined the big changes in this new preview version. The major development, as mentioned, is that the adverts are being dumped, and that means all of them, with Microsoft proclaiming that "Skype is now ad-free!"

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