I work as a contractor for another company. As a result, I have got 2 corporate teams to manage. I chat / conference with the groups at my “employer's company” and the groups at my “contract provider's company”.
I use Skype for one and Teams for the other. This greatly facilitates my work in both the companies.
How will I manage teams from 2 different companies after Skype is gone?
Moreover, Skype is much more user friendly as a chat /conferencing application.
Whereas Teams has lot of other use cases over the top.
Please keep Skype alive. I don't care if it is maintained or not. But let user use it in its today's version.
There is a real biz case here.
Phasing out Skype is not a good idea folks. It is still a great chat application. You can shelve it out to another company to manage if at all it has a cost associated to keep it alive.
This is a sincere request to MS!