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Skype Announces Skype For Business

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ready-for-the-bigtime dept.

conq writes "Skype has launched a new offensive to go after small business dollars. From the BusinessWeek article: 'The company is unveiling Skype for Business, aimed at small companies with fewer than 10 employees, on Mar. 9. Skype for Business will include a new Web site, Skype.biz, as well as a host of features and hardware. While Skype has introduced features appealing to business users one by one for the past six months, the new announcement marks the beginning of a concerted effort.'"

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  1. Non Intel based businesses? by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 4, Funny

    If a company uses Apple or AMD systems, does that mean they have to fire 5 employees?

  2. No More Phones? by DarkNemesis618 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I guess actual phones are becoming obsolete. There's something to be said though about the reliability of phone lines. Should the network go down, Skype would become useless. Most business networks are pretty reliable but still aren't perfect.

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  3. Congratulations, Skype! by Jugalator · · Score: 4, Funny

    I believe you're the first non-spammer to use a .biz domain!
    There should be an award for these things to improve .biz adoption. ;-)

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  4. Re:Skype for Linux by ajs318 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And while we're at it, the source code would be nice.

    Failing that, just use a commonly-available hardware SIP phone which will work with the Asterisk software PABX.

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  5. Re:So what will the big phone companies do now? by oirtemed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That is one theory. The other theory involves lobbying and new laws.