Had you been can Microsoft show it's done with Windows Phone? The long, drawn-out death of Microsoft's phone platform still isn't over.

Late final week, Microsoft quietly acknowledged it will drop support in the Windows Phone apps for Teams, Yammer and Skype for Business. This fact isn't surprising to payment been watching what's been location with Windows Phone within the past few years, nevertheless, the suddenness of Microsoft's declaration may catch some abruptly. (And dependant upon tweets and emails I am getting, it did.)

By May 20, 2018, Microsoft do not make these apps around for download using the Microsoft Store and should no longer support them.

The Skype for Business and Yammer apps "may continue to keep work, but i cannot provide any guarantees," said officials in a very Microsoft support article. "These apps don't receive updates or support."

On the other hand, the Microsoft Teams app for Windows Phone "will not work, and users will receive an error message whenever they try to connect," this post said.

Microsoft continues to support the Skype for Business mobile apps for iOS and Android, besides the versions for desktop Windows and Mac. Microsoft's guidance for Windows Phone users should be to access Skype for Business, Teams and Yammer via their visitor.

In related news, Microsoft also noted yesterday morning that it will be removing quite a lot of Yammer features in May 2018. The provider is getting eliminate Yammer's native org chart feature; its recent activity module around the home page; and so the Yammer desktop notifier applicaiton.

Microsoft is advising Yammer users who thought i'd continue to profit from these features to watch alternatives that are built into Office 365.