If you think about it, Teams has been more focused on a workgroup trying to get things done. We’ve seen huge uptake of Yammer through all this. “Yammer is for helping organizations build communities,” Teper explained. Microsoft integrated Yammer into Teams in March 2019, and the company continues to add features to both services. We also asked Teper about the state of Yammer, Microsoft’s enterprise social network for private communication within organizations. Google is keeping all its apps, like Facebook and Microsoft, but it’s not planning to integrate them with one another, unlike Facebook and Microsoft. “It’s not necessarily a bad thing that there are multiple communications applications if they’re for a different purpose,” Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google SVP of platforms and ecosystems, told the Verge.
Earlier this month, Google reorganized all of its communication apps (Google Meet, Google Chat, Google Duo, Google Messages, and the phone app on Android) under one team.
Microsoft is indicating that users can expect the same with Skype and Teams.įacebook and Microsoft aren’t the only tech giants looking at their messaging apps and deciding against any drastic changes. Facebook isn’t merging or killing any of its apps - just integrating their functionality. And so we’ll have them interoperate, but we’re going to continue to show love to the Skype customer base.”įacebook, whose apps have 3 billion monthly active users, is on a multi-year journey to integrate messaging across Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. It does overlap in the same need, just like Messenger and WhatsApp do from Facebook. Teams has a very different flavor to it than Skype. That’s how I look at our playbook, at least in the near term. They’re not forcing a migration from one of their consumer tools to another. “Facebook, for example, has multiple tools, with Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp,” Teper noted. So Skype will live on - the recent spike in usage gives the team little reason to simply merge Skype into Teams and call it a day. And so we’re not going to get ahead of ourselves here.” But we’re not going to be heavy-handed about this. As Teams lands with consumers and does more things, I think people will pick Teams. “We’re continuing to invest in Skype,” Jeff Teper, CVP for Microsoft 365, told VentureBeat. Join us at the leading event on applied AI for enterprise business and technology decision makers in-person July 19 and virtually from July 20-28.
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(Read our full interview, Microsoft’s Jeff Teper: Teams ‘will be even bigger than Windows’.) Microsoft also announced Teams for consumers was coming in a few months and said users could stick with Skype for their personal life “in the meantime.” This suggested that for consumers, Skype’s days were numbered, much as Skype for Business is being phased out in favor of Microsoft Teams.
As we’ve learned more about the company’s plans for Yammer, Microsoft’s strategy for its communication apps is becoming clear.Īs part of its Microsoft 365 for consumers news in March, the company shared that Skype had passed 40 million daily active users, up 70% month over month, while Skype to Skype calling minutes were up 220%. Microsoft has now confirmed plans to invest in Skype - including adding new features - regardless of its plans with Teams. With usage exploding due to COVID-19 and working from home policies, the company has been eager to talk up Skype, along with Microsoft Teams, its fastest-growing business app ever. But the coronavirus has shaken up the communications space for everyone, even Skype. Skype’s monthly active users, for example, haven’t been updated since August 2015, leaving the official number at 300 million for years. Microsoft has shared few usage numbers since acquiring Skype for $8.5 billion in October 2011. Interested in learning what's next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next.
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