I thought nothing could suck more than Lync but Skype for Business proved me wrong

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The emojis are the best! Rainbow squirrel is my go-to

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Emojis are much improved...disco dancing man!

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Thank God for the banging-head-against-wall emoji! What even was life before that emoji????

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Emojis are creepy

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The emojis are the worst

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The emojis ARE THE BEST.

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I'm finding the call quality is a lot better now. So at least there's that.

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It's actually still Lync but just rebranded as Skype.....

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The app is the biggest piece of shit

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I thought it was using Skype telephony infrastructure, hence the better call quality.

The app is even worse

Still no Mac Support so I'm stuck with Lync still.

No bullshit. It's horrid and I agree the app is booty.

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