Windows 11: Skype will disappear in favor of Microsoft Teams

The arrival of Windows 11 is imminent. If no date has been announced, its release could happen by the end of the year. According to Windows Latest, when Windows 11 is released, Skype will disappear in favor of Microsoft Teams, a proprietary collaborative communication application.

According to Windows Latest, Skype will no longer be installed by default on machines equipped with Windows 11. Instead, Microsoft will integrate Microsoft Teams, a proprietary collaborative communication application released in 2016. This information originally comes from a leaked version of Windows 11 who found herself on the run on the Internet. And that didn't understand Skype by default.

Windows 11: Skype will disappear in favor of Microsoft Teams

Windows 11 should be available later this year, with an all-new design close to Windows 10X. The most notable changes on Windows 11 are the taskbar which will be centered and the layout of the Start menu, but not only. There will also be other minor changes in this new version of the operating system.

In a leaked version on the Internet, Skype no longer appears in the list of preinstalled software. Which means you won't see Skype anymore when Windows 11 launches, although you can still get it from the Microsoft Store.

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Windows 11 also dropped support for Meet Now, a taskbar tool that lets you create and join Skype video calls right from the desktop. Meet Now is offered with the Skype communication platform and appears as a camera button in the taskbar area, next to the system tray.

On the leaked version of Windows 11, the Meet Now button also ends up removed from the taskbar. Microsoft would thus be working on a new feature that will eventually replace this button with another linked to Microsoft Teams. This would allow users to more easily access their Teams chats and online meetings. This feature would be called Meet & Chat.

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