Microsoft has decided to shut down its popular video meeting platform Skype after 22 years of service.
This decision came following the growing popularity of another Microsoft-created video meeting platform, ‘Teams’, on which the company now wants to focus all its attention.
According to a senior Microsoft official, Teams has retained the features that were available in Skype.
Through Teams, users can benefit from services like individual and group video calls, messaging, and file sharing for free.
According to Microsoft, the number of users using Teams has increased fourfold in the past two years.
Skype users had reached 400 million by 2008, but later its usage declined due to the rise of other apps. While other video conferencing platforms saw a significant increase in users during the COVID period, Skype did not see any notable growth.
Subsequently, Microsoft started focusing on Teams and has finally decided to completely shut down Skype on Monday. Users have also been notified of this decision.
