With many colleagues still absent from their cubicles, communicating across counties and continents, the value of an integrated solution is evident. An on-premises version, Skype for Business Server, will offer mainstream support through 2024. Microsoft announced the forthcoming retirement of its Software-as-a-Service edition, Skype for Business Online, in 2019 - well before the COVID-19 pandemic - to nudge Skype users toward the cloud-based unified communications platform known as Microsoft Teams. The shift was well-timed: It predated a global health crisis that would forever change remote work. Skype capabilities grew over time, but so did the efforts of Microsoft developers to design a more comprehensive option better suited to the evolving needs of employee collaboration. I think that you'll love the familiary of both Lync and Skype rolled into one perfect communication tool.A 2015 rebrand of Microsoft’s Lync enterprise instant messaging software first released almost a decade earlier marked the birth of Skype for Business.īack then, workplace users might have relied on Skype (the consumer version was acquired by Microsoft in 2011) to send messages and to make audio and video calls. The user interface is similar, yet has a better look and feel. I can easily share my OneNote meeting notes with my team right away using Outlook and it even pulls in the time and date of the meeting.even all of the participants and how they joined the meeting. One of my favorite new features is that you can use the Present Button and click on My Notes to instantly use OneNote to take notes during the meeting! This amazing integration with other Office Applications makes my workflow seamless. Don't worry whether they’re inside or outside your organization…it doesn’t matter! You’ll still enjoy Lync features like presence, IM, voice and video calls, and online meetings but, with Skype for Business, you can search for and connect with anyone in the Skype network. The cool thing is that it is now built right into Microsoft Office and unifies all of the tools that we use to communicate. Well, Skype for Business is based on the familiar Skype experience that millions of people use all the time. When do I get Skype for Business? If you’re currently use Lync Online in Office 365, you’ll get Skype for Business sometime by the end of May 2015! It is automatically replacing Microsoft Lync as a robust and unified collaboration and communication platform.
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