Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

humorous_ t1_je5y2kp wrote

Reply to comment by Xhiel_WRA in Microsoft promises it’s made Teams less confusing by unnamedprydonian

It’s the logical conclusion to the “Skype for Business” hole they were scrambling to fill for a couple years between Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype and the advent of Teams. The core idea behind Teams is probably the first Microsoft idea I’ve liked in a while.

Between Teams and O365, Microsoft pretty successfully pivoted into a business services titan rather than just the company selling the software businesses use. Plus now they can probably sell your data (or anonymized versions of it) AND charge you for using the services that collect that data.

4

Xhiel_WRA t1_je5yofl wrote

It's not just the logical conclusion, as in they naturally developed on into the other. No, no. SFB just fucking turned into Teams one day.

If you used Skype for Business (and didn't pay M$ to keep it the fuck still for another year while you desperately try to get out from under technical debt) your SFB turned into Teams, as in the client un-installed itself and installed Teams.

Your DNS records for SFB sip? Yeah they didn't need to be changed or anything. They just work for Teams. Same infrastructure.

2

humorous_ t1_je6c2z9 wrote

You’re right, I was misremembering the transition as less chaotic than it actually was.

2

Xhiel_WRA t1_je6eemn wrote

God it was a whole thing. /r/SysAdmin had some fucking incredible threads with people figuring out how to roll back, how to unfuck Teams, etc.

It was a wild time to be alive and working in the industry.

2