Microsoft announced Friday it will be “retiring” Skype in May, nearly 22 years after the web-based phone and video calling service launched ― and helped popularize the idea of free, internet-based calls.

Continue your calls and chats in Teams.” That explicitly spells out the plans for Skype’s deprecation in favor of Microsoft’s main-line voice and video chat software. In an email statement, the company told Gizmodo that Microsoft is ending the service on May 5.