Eric
They sort of did, but I've a few friends who can't use them (old devices) and so the old emoticons remain. What I don't like is the jarring *custom* emotes some services use, Skype's attempt of emojis are just terrible, ugly and out right bad.
🏒 Lucian Marin
Skype is the worst messaging app, except for their stable audio/video communication. Somehow I'm glad we got rid of custom gifs for emoticons from online forums and such.