
But some corporations could be over a decade slow in upgrading (many still use Lync 2007!). Good news is that MS is replacing Skype4B with MS Teams which has a web and native Linux binary already.The other nail in the coffin is that MS will reportedly discontinue Skype4B support in mid 2021.Skype4B was always just a renamed version of the very old Microsoft Lync software which works totally differently to Skype regular (which was originally a separate company later purchased by MS).The software is "Skype" by brand name only, and has nothing to do with regular Skype which already works on Linux.


It's annoying, but I am almost certain MS will never make Skype4B available on Linux.Here is my latest advice about running Skype4B aka Lync on Linux:
