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# Microsoft says sayonara to Skype
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/microsoft-says-sayonara-to-skype/
- Published: 2025-02-28T21:16:49.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-28T21:16:49.000Z
- Author: Capitol Communicator
- Tags: Social Media, Technology, #wp-upper-left-sponsored, #Import 2026-10-08 18:55

**It’s time to say sayonara to Skype**, with Microsoft saying it will be shutting down its video and chat app on May 5, reports The Wrap. In its place, Microsoft will be offering a free version of Teams. Current Skype users will have the option to move over their chat history and contacts to Teams once Skype is turned off.

“Skype users will be in control, they’ll have the choice,” **Jeff Teper,** Microsoft’s president of Microsoft 365 collaborative apps and platforms, told The Verge. “They can migrate their conversation history and their contacts out and move on if they want, or they can migrate to Teams.”

Microsoft reported Skype had 36 million daily users in 2023 — or about 270 million less than chief rival Zoom had at the time, states The Wrap.

The app’s shutdown will come 14 years after Microsoft spent $8.5 billion to acquire Skype in May 2011.

More [here](https://www.thewrap.com/microsoft-shuts-down-skype-teams/?ref=capitolcommunicator.com).