The fact that it doesn’t jump to the front of our minds when thinking about digital workplace platforms might explain why, yes, 2021 marks the beginning of the end for Skype for Business. Numerous contenders have entered the fray: Microsoft Teams, Asana, Monday, Slack, and many more.īut one is notable by its absence (or perhaps not, as the case may be), and that’s Skype for Business. Since the world changed for business in 2020, there’s been something of a war brewing in the world of digital collaboration. Skype for Business Server 2019 will be supported with patches and essential updates until 2025, but the product will no longer be updated or actively sold.The plan for the deprecation of the platform was announced in 2017, but the first practical steps will be taken in July 2021 with the shutdown of Skype for Business Online.Skype for Business, first introduced in 2015, is being phased out in favour of Microsoft Teams.Snaps might not be the packaging format ticking everyone’s tastebuds, but they’ve proven to be hugely successful so far - frequent updates to tentpole software like Skype will help ensure that this success continues.
Hopefully things will continue tick along nicely hereon. Their lacklustre Snap maintainer (despite releasing new Linux builds through other methods) was both disappointing and discouraging - and not just to Snap app users! Indie app developers debating support for the format may have been put off, inferring that supporting the format is more work than (i’m told) it is.
Skype and Spotify (which also had a recent hiccup to its update frequency) are two of the best known apps on the Snap store. It’s no revolutionary, but I think it’s a subtle improvement over the original. The new Skype icon eschews the flat design of the former for a layered look using gradients and shadows. The new Skype icon is dressed in Microsoft’s new ‘fluent’ design language, a style it has been slowly rolling out its core products, like Microsoft Office, since last November.
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