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Glad they rolled back the redesign. Hopefully they will work to improve "Skype for Business" to work more like Skype. Skype for Business is just horrible. 1)

Glad they rolled back the redesign. Hopefully they will work to improve "Skype for Business" to work more like Skype. Skype for Business is just horrible. 1) Messages appear grouped by who I send them to, but there are multiple message threads. This wouldn't be the end of the world, except if I respond on my phone or laptop the responses go to different message threads. Impossible to read back a message thread and have it make any sense. 2) Most of the time, there's a sync issue... I get messages on all devices, but if I reply I only see my responses on the device that I was on when I typed the response. Mix with point 1, and I have no meaningful history being logged. 3) Messages take different amounts of time to get to a phone or a computer. 4) Files will silently fail to send. I look at a conversation, and it looks like my file goes through... then I look back a day or so later and it says, "File failed to send." So aggravating. Can't rely on it at all. Anyway I know it's probably more to do with the instance my work set up, but this is my first time using Skype for Business since it rebranded away from Lync. And the experience hasn't been good. Give me Slack or Discord or WhatsApp... really anything else. No shortage of options these days.

user5994461 8y ago
The 4th point is the file sharing was disabled by the administrator. There really should be a clear message on that rather than error the file transfer. For the rest, I don't think that skype can work at all when opened on multiple devices. It should be easy enough to uninstall from your phone.
Fellshard 8y ago
It's just Exchange models extended beyond the breaking point to try and support real-time chat, and it really, really shows. Any time we enter a client that still uses 'Skype for Business', you know you're in for a rough time.

user5994461 8y ago

The 4th point is the file sharing was disabled by the administrator. There really should be a clear message on that rather than error the file transfer. For the rest, I don't think that skype can work at all when opened on multiple devices. It should be easy enough to uninstall from your phone.

Fellshard 8y ago

It's just Exchange models extended beyond the breaking point to try and support real-time chat, and it really, really shows. Any time we enter a client that still uses 'Skype for Business', you know you're in for a rough time.