Screenshots released by Microsoft show Skype for Business video calls (top) using the same Skype interface, able to connect to a list of Skype or Lync contacts. Skype for Business will also keep the popover window that shows the details of a call if a user moves to another application. It’s possible, but I don’t see it happening anytime soon. It would also require all Skype for Business users to have the Office Suite, which isn’t practical. And certainly isn’t likely for the Skype Consumer users.” A fresh new look “That would require Outlook to adopt a UI that supports telephony, IM, video, and desktop/application sharing. “I can see making calls from Outlook, but the Skype for Business client and Skype Consumer clients won’t go away.
Snodgrass said he doesn’t think so, at least in the short term. Will video conversation and chat eventually just be a component of Outlook? Microsoft Tivo, for example, was founded on a novel concept-“pausing” live TV-but DVR functions are now just a feature of modern cable boxes. The Microsoft Office Assistant was never a feature of Windows, but a feature included in Microsoft Office applications such as Office XP and earlier. The legendary paperclip has made his return via some wallpapers on Microsofts Twitter. You have to wonder now, however, how long Skype will be maintained as a separate product. Clippy lost his job at Microsoft in 2001. With Lync now dead, Skype will carry the torch. On the other hand, Microsoft essentially had the best of two collaboration products to pull from.
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Why this matters: Since 2013, customers have wondered why Microsoft kept both Skype and Lync around, because the overlap between the two products was so great. Clippit, better known as Clippy, is the default animated character in the English Windows version of Microsoft Office Assistant, an interactive users guide. Basically, “there’s no massive underlying technological change that has occurred,” said Andrew Snodgrass, a research vice president at analyst firm Directions on Microsoft.
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