Two years ago, Microsoft announced that it would withdraw Skype for Business Online on July 31, 2021, that is today.
The company is known to promote the Teams application as the successor to Skype for Business and urges organizations to change to its latest application as soon as possible.
As we mentioned above, the company from Redmond has been pushing the Teams app for business a lot lately but and for ordinary consumers. Definitely has a reason to do so:
Its new software will be integrated into Windows 11 and it will be there for everyone. Microsoft plans to transition from Skype for Business Online to the Teams app starting in October 2017.
The company posted instructions for those interested in learning how to transfer meeting data and contacts from Skype for Business Online to Teams.
From today Skype for Business will not be accessible, but the services Skype consumer service, Skype for Business Server & Hosting, and the Skype for Business Online variant running on China Sovereign Clouds Instance will continue to function as normal.