Uninstalling Skype for Business from Computer?

I'm running Win7 and IE11 and the Skype for Business program is really giving me
problems in IE11. What is the best and safest way to uninstall this program, if
it can be uninstalled. I don't think I need it for anything! I'm not even sure
what it does!

Any insights really appreciated.
Thanks
Charlie

wrote:
I'm running Win7 and IE11 and the Skype for Business program is really giving me
problems in IE11. What is the best and safest way to uninstall this program, if
it can be uninstalled. I don't think I need it for anything! I'm not even sure
what it does!

Any insights really appreciated.
Thanks
Charlie


Skype to Skype is a phone/video conference service.

Skype to Skype calls are free.

Skype to PSTN calls have a fee. The Skype network bridges
to Bell, at the nearest point in the public switched
telephone network. Normally, the PSTN charges for
such connections.

You can get a Skype subscription, and possibly
pay in advance for "minutes". Which helps when you
phone Grandma in Togo who has an old rotary phone.
Talking to her while using the microphone
in your webcam, say.

Back when Skype was its own corporation, the Skype
network was distributed. So the telephone traffic
didn't necessarily all go through one piece
of centralized equipment. Skype was also
a marvel of cryptography. Since Microsoft
purchased it for $6 billion, they have changed
the architecture to be more centralized. It
might not be using Supernodes any more.

None of the previous paragraph matters, unless
you like certain kinds of conspiracy theories.

Skype the software, like many other things on
the computer, wakes up once in a while and messes
around. Even if you have no Skype number, and
do not participate, you might still see it
running.

Skype was considered (by Microsoft) to be a replacement
for Messenger??? And at some point, Skype was installed
on your computer as an upgrade to Messenger. On newer
OSes like Windows 10, you would expect Skype to be
there by default. Although I don't recollect any
attempts to alert me to the fact it was present.
I guess I'm supposed to find it by accident.

Paul

wrote:
I'm running Win7 and IE11 and the Skype for Business program is really giving me
problems in IE11. What is the best and safest way to uninstall this program, if
it can be uninstalled. I don't think I need it for anything! I'm not even sure
what it does!

Any insights really appreciated.
Thanks
Charlie

Skype on my W7's with IE9 can be removed with control panel / programs and features /
skype / uninstall. I won't allow IE11 on my machines so don't know if there has
been a change in removal procedure or not.

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, says...

I'm running Win7 and IE11 and the Skype for Business program is really giving me
problems in IE11. What is the best and safest way to uninstall this program, if
it can be uninstalled. I don't think I need it for anything! I'm not even sure
what it does!

Any insights really appreciated.
Thanks
Charlie

You should have a Skype for Business Basic 2016 and Skype for Business
Web App Plug-in, in your Programs and Features list.

Uninstall 'em.

--
Duncan.

On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 12:49:02 +1200, Dave Doe wrote:

In article ,
, says...

I'm running Win7 and IE11 and the Skype for Business program is really giving me
problems in IE11. What is the best and safest way to uninstall this program, if
it can be uninstalled. I don't think I need it for anything! I'm not even sure
what it does!

Any insights really appreciated.
Thanks
Charlie

You should have a Skype for Business Basic 2016 and Skype for Business
Web App Plug-in, in your Programs and Features list.

Uninstall 'em.

Thanks, got you!

In article ,
, says...

On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 12:49:02 +1200, Dave Doe wrote:

In article ,
, says...

I'm running Win7 and IE11 and the Skype for Business program is really giving me
problems in IE11. What is the best and safest way to uninstall this program, if
it can be uninstalled. I don't think I need it for anything! I'm not even sure
what it does!

Any insights really appreciated.
Thanks
Charlie

You should have a Skype for Business Basic 2016 and Skype for Business
Web App Plug-in, in your Programs and Features list.

Uninstall 'em.

Thanks, got you!

They may well come back, by themselves, when an Office 365 update comes
out

I guess it's sorta to do Skype; text and video etc, calls, inside your
office - although it can work like standard Skype too and include
contacts outside your organisation.

--
Duncan.

In message , Paul
writes:
wrote:
I'm running Win7 and IE11 and the Skype for Business program is
really giving me
problems in IE11. What is the best and safest way to uninstall this
program, if
it can be uninstalled. I don't think I need it for anything! I'm
not even sure
what it does!
Any insights really appreciated.
Thanks
Charlie


Skype to Skype is a phone/video conference service.

Skype to Skype calls are free.

Skype to PSTN calls have a fee. The Skype network bridges
to Bell, at the nearest point in the public switched
telephone network. Normally, the PSTN charges for
such connections.

You can get a Skype subscription, and possibly
pay in advance for "minutes". Which helps when you
phone Grandma in Togo who has an old rotary phone.
Talking to her while using the microphone
in your webcam, say.

Back when Skype was its own corporation, the Skype
network was distributed. So the telephone traffic
didn't necessarily all go through one piece
of centralized equipment. Skype was also
a marvel of cryptography. Since Microsoft
purchased it for $6 billion, they have changed
the architecture to be more centralized. It
might not be using Supernodes any more.

None of the previous paragraph matters, unless
you like certain kinds of conspiracy theories.

Skype the software, like many other things on
the computer, wakes up once in a while and messes
around. Even if you have no Skype number, and
do not participate, you might still see it
running.

Skype was considered (by Microsoft) to be a replacement
for Messenger??? And at some point, Skype was installed
on your computer as an upgrade to Messenger. On newer
OSes like Windows 10, you would expect Skype to be
there by default. Although I don't recollect any
attempts to alert me to the fact it was present.
I guess I'm supposed to find it by accident.

Paul

I think all you've said refers to normal Skype; Skype for Business, at
least on my 7 machine at work, appears under Office 2010, though I don't
think it was originally (we had something called Lynx, though again I'm
not sure if that's a standard part of O2010 or was just placed there by
our IT build). We use it (and Lynx before it) like, as another has said,
messenger: a way to send instant text messages to others on the
corporate network (usually "are you going for a tea break?"). [It's also
planned to turn on the voice aspects of it soon to replace our 'phones;
I'm not relishing that prospect, since - although it'll be useful, since
people'll be able to get me even when I've been moved away from my
nominal extension, which I often am - we'll be completely out of contact
when there's any network problem.]
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En el artículo , Paul in Houston TX
escribió:

I won't allow IE11 on my machines

How do you manage that? Microsoft installed it without asking even
though I have Windows Update, the wuausrv and BITS services disabled.
*******s.

--
(\_/)
(='.'=) systemd: the Linux version of Windows 10
(")_(")

Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artículo , Paul in Houston TX
escribió:

I won't allow IE11 on my machines

How do you manage that? Microsoft installed it without asking even
though I have Windows Update, the wuausrv and BITS services disabled.
*******s.

MS makes an IE11 blocker. My employer uses this since IE11 is not
compatible with our softwa

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...locker-toolkit

On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 08:39:51 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

I think all you've said refers to normal Skype; Skype for Business, at
least on my 7 machine at work, appears under Office 2010, though I don't
think it was originally (we had something called Lynx, though again I'm
not sure if that's a standard part of O2010 or was just placed there by
our IT build).

I believe you're correct. Lync (not Lynx) wasn't distributed with and
edition of Office 2010, as far as I know, but it was available as a separate
download at the time. That version of Lync is hard to find now. In Office
2013 and 2016, it's included as another one of the many available
components.

In recent months, Lync was rebranded as Skype for Business, but it's
essentially the same program, at least from the user perspective.

--

Char Jackson