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

Microsoft is shutting down Skype, the internet-based phone and video service that was once the dominant way of staying connected in the mid 2000s.

The service will shut down roughly 14 years after Microsoft purchased it for $8.5 billion, after calling Skype “the leading Internet communications company” at the time of the acquisition. Microsoft said the move to retire Skype is being made to “streamline” its consumer offerings by focusing on Teams.