Microsoft announced last week that it would be shutting down the video call platform Skype, almost 14 years after it purchased the company for $8.5 billion.

It’s last call for Skype, as Microsoft announces the audio and video platform is shutting down in May. User have been encouraged to switch over to Microsoft Teams Free.

Microsoft announced on Friday that it will be retiring Skype in May and putting all of its video conferencing resources into Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft said today it will be retiring the original free internet calling app Skype in May and migrating customers to Microsoft Teams.

Skype was an a pioneer in live video-calling that was bought by Microsoft in 2011, but was later overtaken by competing services.

Skype, the Microsoft-owned service that popularized making calls over the internet, is hanging up for good. In May, Microsoft will shut down Skype, which it bought in 2011 for $8.5 billion in what at the time was the biggest acquisition in the tech titan’s history.

Microsoft is shutting down Skype, the service that once helped put video calling on the map. The company announced on Friday it is retiring Skype in May as part of a broader effort to focus on Microsoft Teams,

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

Skype will ring for the last time on May 5 as owner Microsoft retires the two-decade-old internet calling service that redefined how people connect across borders.