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Sounds like you're using a consumer version of a product and wondering why it has consumer features. It would however be interesting to see how Skype for Pro's

Sounds like you're using a consumer version of a product and wondering why it has consumer features. It would however be interesting to see how Skype for Pro's (read: Business) handles this suggestion feature.

gumby 8y ago
I assume most people who still use Skype use the consumer version.
freeone3000 8y ago
Skype for Business does not have a contact suggestion feature. It's also a completely separate product. Skype is to Skype for Business as Visual Studio is to Visual Studio Code.
- cm2187 8y ago
  I wonder how they thought that it was a good idea to capitalize on a brand that they previously damaged beyond recognition.
  - Meph504 8y ago
    Skype for business is now being folded into Microsoft teams, in fact, by default, Skype for business users, will have teams shadow installed on their machines, unless their admins make and effort to stop it. I'd say they are probably going to draw a hard line between them, perhaps so they can experiment with more public features like this. "LinkedIn integration in the Office web apps will gradually start rolling out in the coming months for Office 365 users and to Outlook on the web users who have opted in to the new Outlook on the web, and world-wide availability will come in 2019."
- rzzzt 8y ago
  Formerly known as Lync: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_for_Business https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_for_Business
  - dijit 8y ago
    And before that: Office Communicator. They really are distinct products, it's "skype" by name only. Office Communicator/Lync/SfB is really designed for companies to run themselves, there's tangential support for federation (as in, it exists, but it's a complete and utter nightmare for administering) there's no support for blocking contacts and by default the entire "local" directory is available. In fact, I'm not even sure if you can configure it not to expose all your users to every other user. It's a /completely/ different product, that fact cannot be understated.
- zuppy 8y ago
  they're pushing something else now: microsoft teams. looks like a combination of google wave and hipchat.
  - throwmeback 8y ago
    My company suddenly jumped to Office 365 recently. We now have to use the "Mobile" versions of all Office apps (they don't even appear in the Windows Store search for me). It feels like a preschool version of an actual Office Suite. We've been testing Teams for a week and nobody has used it ever since. It doesn't delivers a message and then it disappear; the calls often work only one-way. To use it on Linux, you have to fake your user-agent. It's laughably bad.
    - freeone3000 8y ago
      You can use it on linux with Chrome, not Chromium, and Firefox, but only from the website and not from your distribution. This may relieve the hassle of faking your user-agent.
      - throwmeback 8y ago
        I exclusively use Chromium or privacy-oriented forks on my devices, so I'll be sticking to the user-agent faking for now. Thanks for the clarification though!
  - Paraesthetic 8y ago
    to be honest though. I loved google wave
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gumby 8y ago

I assume most people who still use Skype use the consumer version.

freeone3000 8y ago

Skype for Business does not have a contact suggestion feature. It's also a completely separate product. Skype is to Skype for Business as Visual Studio is to Visual Studio Code.

cm2187 8y ago
I wonder how they thought that it was a good idea to capitalize on a brand that they previously damaged beyond recognition.
- Meph504 8y ago
  Skype for business is now being folded into Microsoft teams, in fact, by default, Skype for business users, will have teams shadow installed on their machines, unless their admins make and effort to stop it. I'd say they are probably going to draw a hard line between them, perhaps so they can experiment with more public features like this. "LinkedIn integration in the Office web apps will gradually start rolling out in the coming months for Office 365 users and to Outlook on the web users who have opted in to the new Outlook on the web, and world-wide availability will come in 2019."
rzzzt 8y ago
Formerly known as Lync: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_for_Business https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_for_Business
- dijit 8y ago
  And before that: Office Communicator. They really are distinct products, it's "skype" by name only. Office Communicator/Lync/SfB is really designed for companies to run themselves, there's tangential support for federation (as in, it exists, but it's a complete and utter nightmare for administering) there's no support for blocking contacts and by default the entire "local" directory is available. In fact, I'm not even sure if you can configure it not to expose all your users to every other user. It's a /completely/ different product, that fact cannot be understated.
zuppy 8y ago
they're pushing something else now: microsoft teams. looks like a combination of google wave and hipchat.
- throwmeback 8y ago
  My company suddenly jumped to Office 365 recently. We now have to use the "Mobile" versions of all Office apps (they don't even appear in the Windows Store search for me). It feels like a preschool version of an actual Office Suite. We've been testing Teams for a week and nobody has used it ever since. It doesn't delivers a message and then it disappear; the calls often work only one-way. To use it on Linux, you have to fake your user-agent. It's laughably bad.
  - freeone3000 8y ago
    You can use it on linux with Chrome, not Chromium, and Firefox, but only from the website and not from your distribution. This may relieve the hassle of faking your user-agent.
    - throwmeback 8y ago
      I exclusively use Chromium or privacy-oriented forks on my devices, so I'll be sticking to the user-agent faking for now. Thanks for the clarification though!
- Paraesthetic 8y ago
  to be honest though. I loved google wave

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