Microsoft Corp. said on Friday that it was killing off Skype, one of the first services to offer phone and video calls over the internet. Skype was a vestige of the early-2000s tech boom and bust, and its current users will be transitioned over to free accounts on Microsoft Teams — the company’s preferred videoconferencing and workplace-communications tool,

Skype was an a pioneer in live video-calling that was bought by Microsoft in 2011, but was later overtaken by competing services.