We all use skype personal in our company because it just works.
We have an important meeting with a 3rd party who insist on usign Lync. They sent us a meeting invitation link which looks like this:
https://meet.theircompany.com/theirname/xxxx
When we open this in chrome (win 10 64 bit), it says "
"You are joining the meeting
You may close this web page now."
But it just hangs. Nothing happens.
Below this, it says:
"Having trouble joining the meeting?Try Lync Web App"
When we click on the "Trt Lync web app", its says silverlight 4.0 missing.
When we try to download silverlight, it says not compatible with this browser.
When we try to the meeting link using Edge, it says not compatible with 64 bit browsers.
so we cant run Lync, and I could not join the critical meeting.
MS bought Skype, why dont they replace lync with skype which is universal - everyone we have ever dealt with has it, but very few have lync. Or at least make them compatible.
We have never had a problem with Skype, zoom meeting, joinme, gotomeeting. Only Lync doesnt work. We have no idea what lync is, as we cant get it to load.