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Microsoft is shutting down Skype after buying it 14 years ago for $8.5 billion

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Microsoft is pulling the plug on Skype , the pioneering Internet telecommunications and video call platform it bought.

Skype will be retiring in May 2025 to focus on Microsoft Teams , the company says.

Microsoft bought Skype the prior year and launched Teams for consumers in 2020 .

Skype was launched in 2003 by entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis.

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