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I wish Skype for business was a decent product but it's not. Strange UI quirks. Limits on the length of messages for no good reason. Emoticons which only appea

I wish Skype for business was a decent product but it's not. Strange UI quirks. Limits on the length of messages for no good reason. Emoticons which only appear once the message is sent - SQL statements are rendered to nonsense. All images are converted to thumbnails which need to be opened. Audio quality issues galore too. A lot of companies have moved to Skype for business for IM and VoIP. Not an enterprise level product.

vosper 10y ago
Isn't Skype for Business just Lync with a new name? I'm not sure it has any relation to the original Skype?
- PeterStuer 10y ago
  Yes, even the .exe is still called Lync
- planetjones 10y ago
  Exactly it's like someone said let's turn Lync into Skype. Rather than building something useful they added the Skype name and kept the same dodgy implementation. Pat on the backs all round...
- chapium 10y ago
  I think it is, but lync 2011 and SFB seem like very different products.
douche 10y ago
A lot of the dodgy stuff is because there are a lot of internals that haven't really been changed since it was Office Communicator 2007. I've spent far too much of my life dealing with these oddities, and I'll assure you, it is a trainwreck. If you want to really have fun, write software that uses their terrible SDKs to plug into and extend Lync/Skype for Business. Still, since it's bundled with Office and Office365 Exchange, lots of people are using it and dropping SameTime or XMPP or other options in large corporations.
jon_richards 10y ago
The one thing I will give them is large file transfers. I hate having to deal with gmail telling me I need to upload it to drive, then warning me that it isn't shared with the recipient, etc, etc.
vardump 10y ago
> Emoticons which only appear once the message is sent - SQL statements are rendered to nonsense. I was going to say try to prefix with "!! ", but it doesn't seem to work anymore! It used to disable formatting and change to monospace font. !! SQL statements, source code fragments, etc.
- douche 10y ago
  There is a setting in the client to turn this garbage off. It's a terrible default, though.
fma 10y ago
My company switched from WebEx to Skype Business last year. There was a transition period. Everyone stayed in WebEx till they shut down out accounts. The list of gripes is too long...but let's just say With the lost of productivity I hope they are paying my company to use it.
tallanvor 10y ago
Settings > Tools > Options > IM > Show emoticons in messages Of course, the people you're chatting with have to do it as well otherwise they'll still see them, but if you're sending SQL statements, log messages, and such, it makes sense to disable them.

vosper 10y ago

Isn't Skype for Business just Lync with a new name? I'm not sure it has any relation to the original Skype?

PeterStuer 10y ago
Yes, even the .exe is still called Lync
planetjones 10y ago
Exactly it's like someone said let's turn Lync into Skype. Rather than building something useful they added the Skype name and kept the same dodgy implementation. Pat on the backs all round...
chapium 10y ago
I think it is, but lync 2011 and SFB seem like very different products.

douche 10y ago

A lot of the dodgy stuff is because there are a lot of internals that haven't really been changed since it was Office Communicator 2007. I've spent far too much of my life dealing with these oddities, and I'll assure you, it is a trainwreck. If you want to really have fun, write software that uses their terrible SDKs to plug into and extend Lync/Skype for Business. Still, since it's bundled with Office and Office365 Exchange, lots of people are using it and dropping SameTime or XMPP or other options in large corporations.

jon_richards 10y ago

The one thing I will give them is large file transfers. I hate having to deal with gmail telling me I need to upload it to drive, then warning me that it isn't shared with the recipient, etc, etc.

vardump 10y ago

> Emoticons which only appear once the message is sent - SQL statements are rendered to nonsense. I was going to say try to prefix with "!! ", but it doesn't seem to work anymore! It used to disable formatting and change to monospace font. !! SQL statements, source code fragments, etc.

douche 10y ago
There is a setting in the client to turn this garbage off. It's a terrible default, though.

fma 10y ago

My company switched from WebEx to Skype Business last year. There was a transition period. Everyone stayed in WebEx till they shut down out accounts. The list of gripes is too long...but let's just say With the lost of productivity I hope they are paying my company to use it.

tallanvor 10y ago

Settings > Tools > Options > IM > Show emoticons in messages Of course, the people you're chatting with have to do it as well otherwise they'll still see them, but if you're sending SQL statements, log messages, and such, it makes sense to disable them.