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Copper Contributor

Jul 25, 2018

Updated Client for SfB Server 2019?

Hi, Are there any planned updates to the SfB client with 2019 (aside from patching/fixes)? When is End of Life/Extended support of 2019? Thanks!

Eric Marsi

MVP

Jul 31, 2018

It would be really nice if they remade the PC client like the Mac client as shown below. It looks very similar to Microsoft Teams and IMO better since it is blue. Let's just hope there would be a dark mode as well, but unfortunately, I do not see this happening.

https://www.silicon.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Skype-for-Business-announces-new-Mac-skype.png

http://lyncinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/skype4bmac_IM.png

James Arber

MVP

Aug 01, 2018

the Skype4B client in the Office 2019 preview looks identical to the SkypeB 2016 client.
I expect that as the team are focusing all their resources on Teams right now there will be little if any UI changes to the 2019 client.

From the server side though. We should see the end of Silverlight finally with a look and feel similar to Office365.