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In order to streamline our free consumer communications offerings so we can more easily adapt to customer needs, we will be retiring Skype in May 2025 to focus on Microsoft Teams (free), our modern communications and collaboration hub.

Edit: I changed the link to the official source.

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[–] JASN_DE@feddit.org 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I was more surprised that they kept Skype around that long.

[–] Thassodar@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They missed a huge window during COVID to be THE meeting tool/app by not adapting, and never recovered. Good riddance, I say.

[–] Tramort@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

Adapt how? I don't recall Skype being any more popular then vs now.