Re:Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand
by michrassena on Thursday May 10, 2018 @11:08AM
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Skype for Business client and server both seem to work pretty well. What I find annoying is Microsoft conflating the branding between two very different products, a rebadged enterprise communications product (formerly Lync) and a commercial-consumer product. So when someone says they want to make a Skype call with a client, what do they mean? Sometimes it's Skype for Business and sometimes it's plain old Skype. It costs everyone time and money when this isn't communicated clearly and one end of the call expects to use Skype and the other end Skype for Business.
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Re:Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand
by WorldMaker on Thursday May 10, 2018 @12:52PM
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Which does seem to be why Skype for Business is getting replaced with Teams, and why Teams is not Skype branded at all, it's just branded Microsoft Teams.
Re:Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand
by occamrazor on Thursday May 10, 2018 @12:11PM
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In theory it is possible to make calls from Skype for Business and Skype for Consumers. In practice the UI for that is quite horrible and I could never successfully connect a call.