"Goodbye Skype, hello Teams," the Skype website now reads. Those who still have an active subscription and Skype Credits can use the Skype Dial Pad to make calls to landlines and mobile numbers. Original Story 2/28: Farewell,

Skype launched in 2003 in Estonia and was used to make free phone calls thanks to VoIP technology. Then it was purchased in 2005 by eBay, which added the video call feature, The Washington Post reported. It was last bought in 2011 by Microsoft for $8.5 billion, Fox Business reported.