Skype never really made sense in a world where Microsoft wants everyone to use Teams. I don’t know for sure how this sort of thing works, but I imagine there was a meeting once where someone convinced Microsoft’s CEO at the time,

Microsoft will soon switch off Skype, a pioneering telecom and video call platform that emerged from the rubble of the dotcom era.

Microsoft is closing down Skype, the video-calling service it bought for $8.5 billion in 2011 and which had helped spark a transformation in how people communicate online.