Microsoft allows calls and messages between Teams and Skype users, although with limitations

Talking about Microsoft applications to facilitate teamwork is like talking about Teams, but it is also obligatory to name Skype. In fact, not so many years ago the latter was the application used by many companies to put their workers in touch.

With the advent of Teams, Microsoft found itself with two tools that in some cases share similar characteristics, so it was not a It was a bad idea that they had greater interoperability between them. A joint work that is already possible between both applications with a first step that allows communication between users of both platforms.

Cross conversations

We have seen how Teams has been gaining potential. With nine-way video calls or virtual meetings of up to 300 people. Communication between users that is now also extended to Skype.

And it is that those users of both Skype and Teams, can call and write to each otherFrom Teams you can contact users Skype and vice versa. It's about taking advantage of the powerful set of people who work with one or another application.

This improvement comes, yes, with a series of limitations In the case of conversations via text, these do not support rich format, Therefore, emojis, GIFs cannot be attached... Meanwhile, if we choose to make an audio call, this is only allowed individually with another user, so group calls are not allowed for now.

And along with these two limitations, another one that equally affects those who use Teams and Skype: in neither case will a user of a platform be able to see and know the status of another person who makes use of the other application. Also, from Teams you won't be able to search for a Skype user using their ID or phone number. Limitations that can also be increased, since IT administrators can limit the use of these options.

Each of the applications is kept for itself therefore some specific functions, perhaps in order not to cause user leakage between platforms

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