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Also, Skype for Business is being replaced with Microsoft Teams. Bold prediction : Skype has less than five years of life left.
by tpaschalis 7y ago
Also, Skype for Business is being replaced with Microsoft Teams. Bold prediction : Skype has less than five years of life left.
- albertshin 7y agoYou wager they'll shut down the consumer facing portion too? It's a fairly decent brand. Although I guess with VoIP so ubiquitously free (WhatsApp, etc) I'm not sure how they monetize these days...
- mathw 7y agoIt's a well-known brand but Microsoft have dragged it through the mud since they acquired it and among those I know it now has a reputation for being extremely unreliable. They might want to retire it rather than fight to rehabilitate its image.
- albertshin 7y agoTrue, on second thought, I found myself saying let's Skype soon and end up using some other app during facetime...
- corey_moncure 7y agoAs for Microsoft Teams, they claim video conferencing and desktop sharing is not supported in the browser on Linux, but spoofing the user agent enables them. They also do not provide a standalone app for Linux, despite the fact it's an Electron app, yet here is the standalone client supported by one individual that works perfectly. https://snapcraft.io/teams-for-linux https://snapcraft.io/teams-for-linux It really makes you think!