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Skype for Business Mac additional features
2. Shortly after GA
3. You can change between Single and Multi-Window
4. No plans for PChat
5. Post GA currently planned for the end of CY16
6. Future CU possibly
7. Post GA (no date available)
8. Post GA (no date available)
9. Not currently planned
Thanks Richard T Schwendiman.
Can you go into more detail on why there are no plans for persistent chat?
At my work place (and no doubt many others) we need this functionality to enable IT project teams to collaborate with business units to aid the software development lifecycle. Having different tools is an overhead and means communication becomes disjointed. At the moment we have multiple tools which makes life hard.
Web based team solutions work okay, however in my opinion have deficiencies that are rarely overcome, mainly notifications been hidden in the background, which leads to people forgetting them and simply not using the tool.
We have a bunch of users requesting access to the SfB persistent chat rooms from a Mac. Would be awesome to tell them MS is solving this problem.
Thanks.
PChat is going away and will be replaced by Skype Teams is my guess. I think we will learn more at the November 2nd Office Event.
Certainly my guess as well, however I'm concerned it's going to be a separate application (or set of applications). I would like to see it integrated into the existing SfB clients.
Today we run SfB, Slack, Skype and a few other IM applications and it's often difficult to call or collaborate with a user from different parts of the business.
My hope for Skype Teams is it would unify into a single product that supported, IM, Persistent Chat and Enterprise Voice. Maybe someone from MS can provide further information?
Thanks.
Change between single and multi chat window although available for some, not for all. Latest build from today still does not provide me with that option.
