I suspect that there may still be more to this transition but the underlying news here is that Skype for Business will not be turned off overnight and at this time, you will not be forced into Teams. This aligns to the company moving everything over to Teams which means that Skype will once again become a consumer-only product. It is also my understanding that Microsoft wants to get the Skype brand out of the enterprise as well. For those users, the Skype for Business client will continue to live but I would not expect many feature updates or enhancements for that app it will maintain with security updates. That being said, this solution is not viable for everyone as some are using on-premises solutions like Skype for Business Server that cannot or will not be moving to Teams. The goal is to make Teams the be-all solution for collaboration and communication which is why we are seeing this transition. What the company is trying to do is to gently nudge anyone using Skype for Business, as well as many other parts of the Office 365 platform, into Teams. It is my understanding, after talking with a few people familiar with Microsoft’s plans, is that they are not killing off Skype for Business. As you would expect, Microsoft did not provide a comment or clarification about what was happening which means the only option left was to poke around the Office 365 neighborhood. In an effort to better understand what is going on, I reached out to Microsoft for a comment about the change. After Microsoft began notifying some users, in what may have been an accident, that Skype for Business is now Microsoft Teams, the news did not sit well with many users who quickly began raising their voices about this change. The past thirty-six hours have been filled with quite the excitement.
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