But paste without formatting works, which is something like Shift+Ctrl+V.
Stupid, but just about usable if desperate.
- For a long time, the status of other users it showed was completely off. Like showing people online when they weren't. Also, sending messages sometimes mysteriously failed.
- Cannot copy conversation as text (formatting is messed up). Cannot save it as text without removing smileys.
- Cannot paste text verbatim into conversation without making silly smileys everywhere.
- There is a (relatively small) limit on how much text you could paste in.
- Couldn't transfer certain files (like .js or .exe).
Many of these things make sense for things like unmoderated chat, but I need to work, and sometimes exchange larger amounts of text and binary data.
The screen sharing also seems to take a while to sync up. Worse, it silently stops updating somewhere in the call. Lync seems to have the worst real world performance of any screen sharing / conferencing app I've used.
The only reason it can compete is because of Microsofts package deals and the anticompetitive integration with the rest of their ecosystem.
Windows Lync>Skype for Business is literally a registry key you roll out that changes the name and some minor interface chrome.
I can't provide a funny story or eulogy, but have a scary one... "Microsoft Lync" [item 10 on the list right now] is not dead, it's aaaalllliiiiivvveeeee...
Those of us who work in the nightmare planes, where Microsoft products are mandated, once hoped that Microsoft's "Skype for Business" would bring us a bit of non-corporate real-world better-because-it-had-to-compete-on-its-own-merits product to save us from the eternal pain of Lync.
But no, it turned out that "Skype for Business" REALLY IS just Lync, with only two changes. 1) rebranding 2) somehow, despite changing almost nothing, they managed to break copy-and-paste, it doesn't work reliably any more
It's a zombie horror story!