Skype – once the dominant video calling service – has announced that it will shut down for good.
The service boasted more than 300 million users at its peak, but the most recent figures Microsoft shared were in 2023, when it said it had more than 36 million users, writes skynews,As of May of this year, Skype will be completely shut down.
Microsoft said: “In order to simplify our free customer communications offerings so we can more easily adapt to their needs, we will retire Skype in May 2025 to focus on Microsoft Teams (free), our modern communications and collaboration hub.”
“We look forward to continuing to power people’s everyday connections by making it easy to sign in to Teams with their Skype account,” the statement added.
