Better products like Teams and Zoom have usurped the innovations of the videoconferencing pioneer.
Microsoft has announced it will shut down Skype, once the dominant video call service, in May this year.
Microsoft is hanging up on the service that helped make video calling mainstream, and will focus on Teams.
Microsoft said Friday (Feb. 28) that it will retire Skype in May and focus on Microsoft Teams as its communications and collaboration hub. This move will allow the company to streamline its free consumer communications offerings and more easily adapt to customer needs, Jeff Teper, president, collaborative apps and platforms at Microsoft, wrote in a Friday blog post.
Microsoft has announced the official shutdown date for Skype, the once-revolutionary calling and messaging service that disrupted traditional telecoms. The 21-year-old platform will cease operations on May 5, with Microsoft urging users to transition to its Teams application.
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The company plans to move users of the pioneering service, which it bought in 2011, to Microsoft Teams.
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Shutting down Skype will help Microsoft focus on its homegrown Teams service by simplifying its communication offerings, the software giant said.
Microsoft said today it will be retiring the original free internet calling app Skype in May and migrating customers to Microsoft Teams. In blog post titled “The next chapter,” Jeff Teper, president, Collaborative Apps and Platforms at the software giant said, “The way we communicate has evolved significantly over the years.
Skype will ring for the last time on 5 May as owner Microsoft retires the two-decade-old internet calling service that redefined how people connect across borders.