"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 users are now being migrated to Microsoft Teams, where their contacts and chat history will be available. Microsoft encourages users to export any important Skype data before the shutdown.

Skype users are scrambling to find an alternative after Microsoft shut down the pioneering internet phone service which let people make cheap long distance calls and chat with other users.