Skype never really made sense in a world where Microsoft wants everyone to use Teams. I don’t know for sure how this sort of thing works, but I imagine there was a meeting once where someone convinced Microsoft’s CEO at the time,

In the announcement, Microsoft called the shut down of Skype as “retiring” the platform and guided users towards shift to its Teams platform, another video conferencing platform that is free for users.

Microsoft will soon switch off Skype, a pioneering telecom and video call platform that emerged from the rubble of the dotcom era.