On Friday, Microsoft announced that it will retire its famous calls application Skype on May 5 after over two decades.
Shutting down Skype will help Microsoft focus on its Teams service.
Founded in 2003, Skype, with its audio and video calls, made a major change in the world of communications, impacting the industry of landlines.
Although containing millions of users, the platform has struggled to keep up with easier-to-use rivals such as Zoom and Slack in recent years
During COVID-19, Microsoft depended on Teams.
Online video communication was once the near exclusive purview of Skype before the FaceTime, Zoom and Google Hangouts took over.
When Microsoft bought Skype in 2011 for $8.5 billion, the service had about 150 million monthly users; by 2020, that number fell to 23 million.
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