Microsoft has announced that Skype, the video-calling service that boasted hundreds of millions of users, will be shutting down in May.
Once one of the world’s most popular platforms, Skype allowed people to make free voice calls from their computers to friends and family around the globe.
Although Skype was not the first company to offer such services, it played a significant role in popularizing free computer-to-computer calls.
In their announcement on X, Skype stated that users can log in to Microsoft Teams using their Skype account to stay connected with their chats and contacts.
Microsoft did not provide an immediate response when approached by BBC News.
First released in 2003, Skype was bought by the tech giant in 2011 for $8.5bn (£6.1bn) – its biggest-ever acquisition at the time.
As Microsoft once outlined, Skype became integrated with the company’s other products such as Xbox and Windows devices.
In December 2010, tech industry commentator Om Malik called it one of the “key applications of the modern web”, when the website suffered a two-day global outage.
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