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by tpaschalis 2493 days ago
Also, Skype for Business is being replaced with Microsoft Teams. Bold prediction : Skype has less than five years of life left.
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As 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

It really makes you think!

You 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...
It'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.
True, on second thought, I found myself saying let's Skype soon and end up using some other app during facetime...