[Njtechdiv] Classic Skype Lives to See Another Day

[Mario Brusco]

Microsoft Backtracks, Classic Skype Lives to See Another Day
https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/skype/165295/micr

Posted on August 6, 2018
  by Brad Sams

Earlier this summer, Microsoft announced that they would be
ending support for version 7.0 of classic Skype in September.
If that news didn’t sit well with you, it looks like you will have a bit 
more time to use the software.

In a forum post where the Skype team was asking for feedback about the 
update, the team has updated the post to say that they will not be 
ending support Skype 7

and will extend the deadline.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/skype_newsms/skype-7-skype-classic-to-be-discontinued-soon/28c3578a-128c-40eb-a99b-f3985c925176?messageId=ecf362c4-917d-4133-a33a-3572b2e39277

The company did not provide a new timeline for the end of life of the 
product but did say that they will update the post again with
more information in the future.

The full post can be read below:

The team says that this change is based on customer feedback but is 
ambiguous about the future of the platform. This is an awkward backward 
step for the Skype team as they previously said that Skype 8 had all the 
functionality that users needed but clearly that is not the case.

For the past couple of weeks, Microsoft has been aggressively pushing 
users to upgrade from version 7 to 8 but it’s clear that this update 
process has been far from painless.

I have reached out to Microsoft about this change to see if they will 
provide any additional information about when this product will be retired.

For now, if you are using the classic version of Skype, you will be able 
to do so for the foreseeable future. That being said, at some point you 
will have to migrate to a newer version of the software.