Meh: Skype for Business...a fair complement to other O365 apps.
February 17, 2016
Meh: Skype for Business...a fair complement to other O365 apps.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Skype for Business
It's used across the organization. We recently converted from Google Apps to Office 365, so skype for business was essentially a replacement for gchat. For that reason alone, it is definitely a welcome relief and an effective collaboration tool.
- Detects your location and sets it to one of your preset locations.
- Simple user interface.
- It works well with other Microsoft tools.
- Not terribly excited about the skype rebranding (I like it better when it was Lync).
- I'm not a fan of the way it organizes contacts.
- Not having control over my conversation history (allows system admins to deactivate that--not cool).
- Positive: Easy to determine availability of colleagues.
- Negative: It's kind of a bummer that Skype for Business doesn't seem to work on my Windows phone (I wonder if it's because I have the standard Skype app and it's somehow not able to treat the user profiles differently). I didn't have this problem with the Lync app, although I understand the backend setup is mostly the same. Weird.
- Neutral: I suppose the platform stability of having "all Microsoft" O365 tools is a positive. So Skype for Business just seems to fit into that puzzle neatly.
I didn't have much a choice on this.