“Skype calls have excellent sound quality and are highly secure with end-to-end encryption,” Skype’s homepage read in 2004.

Teams is already responsible for the death of Skype for Business in 2021. And with Teams video chats built into the original Windows 11 interface (though removed in later updates)

Microsoft said that users will have the choice to either move to Microsoft Teams for free, or export their data from Skype.

Microsoft is shutting down Skype, the internet-based phone and video service that was once the dominant way of staying connected in the mid 2000s.