Microsoft might be repositioning a few (or all) of Skype for Business as Teams

"Skype for Business is presently Microsoft Teams!" as per a message some Skype for Business clients quickly observed show up in their records.

Various Office 365 clients got a major shock today when attempting to sign onto Skype for Business. They saw a message specifying "Skype for Business is presently Microsoft Teams."

There has been no official declaration from Microsoft - in any event so far - this is the situation. Indeed, since Teams' presentation the previous Fall, Microsoft authorities have kept on attempting to put forth the defense that Teams and Skype for Business serve distinctive necessities and groups of onlookers.

As one Skype for Business (and Office 365 E3) client, Stuart Graham, noted on Twitter on September 7, not long after the message above showed up, it immediately vanished. So perhaps Microsoft is simply doing somewhere in the range of A/B testing on names and marking.

As indicated by a September 7 post on SharePointRelated.com, Office 365 Mail has an alternative that enables clients to talk with their contacts utilizing Skype for Business without leaving the program. It's that new alternative which might be setting off the message that Skype for Business is presently Teams. Along these lines, maybe this was a glitch...

Or, then again perhaps Microsoft just demonstrated its hand in front of an official declaration soon. I've approached Microsoft for input; no word back up until this point.

As I blogged a month ago, Microsoft appears to be prepared to attempt to clear up how Teams and Skype for Business fit together at its Ignite meeting for IT experts, which keeps running from September 25 to 29.

A few Ignite sessions will be committed to illuminating the connection between Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business, in view of the gathering's session list. Right now, Microsoft calls its Slack rival, Teams, "the talk based workspace in Office 365." The first name of Teams was "Skype Teams."

There's a great deal of cover in what Teams and the Skype for Business customer offer, include shrewd, as this AvePoint blog entry from not long ago clarified.

The Skype for Business customer and Teams both give texting, ongoing nearness, voice call, video call, assemble gatherings, and booked gatherings. Groups, dissimilar to Skype for Business, gives strung talk. Skype for Business, not at all like Teams, gives communicate gatherings, PSTN conferencing and dialing, and video interoperability.

Microsoft will be giving a guide at Ignite to the arrangement of highlights previously known as Cloud PBX - which will be called "Microsoft's Phone System," going ahead. Microsoft additionally is renaming the PSTN Calling highlights in Skype for Business as "Calling Plan."

Possibly Microsoft will be taking a portion of the highlights presently in Skype for Business Online and making them accessible only through Teams, while leaving a center arrangement of communication includes some portion of Skype for Business? I imagine that could clear things up a bit for clients astounded by the present cover.

In the mean time, some as of now are persuaded that Microsoft Teams is the fate of Skype for Business Online.

Refresh (September 7): It's looking increasingly like Microsoft is wanting to relocate Skype for Business clients to Teams. On account of @hoyty on Twitter, here's a notice from an Office 365 Admin Portal dated September 7 that demonstrates this relocation will be a pick in involvement yet just for the present - apparently until the point that Microsoft includes a greater amount of the highlights in Skype for Business to Teams.