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

Microsoft will retire Skype by May 2025, transitioning users to Teams. Here’s how to migrate your Skype account, keep your contacts, and continue making calls with Microsoft Teams.

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.