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1. #How to do a skype meeting on personal service update#
2. #How to do a skype meeting on personal service free#

Absent a change from MS on this voicemail debacle, I'll be migrating Number has been made less expensive over the years and an hour of call time is included in my Office 365 subscription it's gotten to the point where I am actively looking for a solution. I've found Skype to be incredibly useful and jumped on the Skype number service as soon as it was available. Microsoft is spending MILLIONS on removing useful functionality (like the custom voicemail greeting) and adding features of questionable benefits (Real time word count, or Deselect tool) just for the sake of changeĪnd, most importantly, to make maintaining the cumbersome juggernauts they're trying to pass off as user software, easier for them. Too bad that a march of the disgruntled thousands in this case is not going to help. Skype was never perfect but it had some degree of honesty before it was swallowed up by Microsoft.

#How to do a skype meeting on personal service free#

Skype itself is NOT free to use (even leaving aside my paid phone number) because it wastes hours and causes anxiety and frustration, each Microsoft continues to ride roughshod over people who have been users - at not inconsiderable expense - for YEARS. Who call me will get a generic greeting that doesn't confirm they have reached me and my business?

#How to do a skype meeting on personal service update#

As it is I haveĪlready had to "downgrade" - back to a working version (for others in need, it is 7.41.0.101) that actually rings when Skype calls come to my desktop, an issue with the latest, greatest update that "our technicians are working on: - and now the potential clients I echo the above comments by JamesWEwing - a generic greeting is totally INappropriate for my Skype account, including the phone number that I PAY for, and I have never received Word One about my carefully prepared greeting being changed. It is absolutely STAGGERING - although not at all surprising - that Microsoft continues to use its quasi-omnipotence to totally disregard the needs of its customers. About a month out I'm going to check again and see if I can customize my greeting. Voicemail customization features, not taking them away. If I need a number in a particular place I am going to want to have that message customized for that place, not some generic folderol that Microsoft thinks is best. These are revenue generators you're running off. To get voicemail a user has to pay forĪ Skype number. It provides exactly zero benefit to the Skype user. This policy only makes it easier for Microsoft.

Greeting? That may be the most blatantly made-up answer I've ever seen from Microsoft. Second, what other Microsoft service uses a voicemail

Or whose computer is set up to work in one language but expects callers using a different language. "We designed the default voicemail greetings to all users to standardize the feature across all Microsoft services."įirst, having a standard voicemail greeting cannot possibly work for someone who uses Skype for business. Thanks for the reply but you didn't think this: