Microsoft Since July this year, it has been reminding users of the Skype communication program to update to the latest version, i.e. Skype 8.0, as soon as possible. Microsoft However, it has now decided to stop just pointing fingers and is literally forcing users to update from Skype Classic (7.0) to the latest version. Of course, most users don't like this, as the new version of Skype doesn't bring any benefits other than a more modern look.
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Skype enjoyed its greatest fame a few years ago, but I bet that even now there are still supporters and active users among you. The impetus for a forced update has been Microsoftyou may know it from the operating system, for example Windows, when updates can be launched practically at any time and it doesn't matter if you have a school project or are watching a movie. Windows simply updates itself when it tells itself to. In the case of Skype, at least we have a specific date when the old version will stop working - it's November 1, 2018.
This is what Skype 8.0 looks like:
As I wrote in the introduction, the new Skype is in its own way a big disappointment. I have to admit that the new design is really better and more modern. However, the inability to work with multiple windows, multiple accounts or the inability to customize sound notifications is a very unpleasant mistake on the part of Microsoftu. So there are only two options - either try this "update - no update" or look around for a competing communication program, of which there are a lot available on the Internet these days.
a competitive communication program, of which there are many on the Internet? One with the features Skype just cut? I don't know any such.
Maybe there would be some competition, the problem is in that next word - communication. When you want to communicate, you have to use something that understands what the other party is using, right? I can buy anything myself, but who am I going to communicate the thing with?
The new Skype is absolutely gorgeous. Another example of what for Microsoft come on, it's early toonec. The key elements that distinguished Skype from others (Contact monitor, etc.) have disappeared, but we have the ability to change colors and share statuses. Amazing… Nothing has improved technologically. Microsoft He also received a lot of negative comments and requests to restore the deleted functions, but nothing changed. Microsoft knows better… It's the same with the Skype mobile platform. Incomprehensible!
I used Skype until Microshrot bought it. I don't have a reason anymore today.
Yes, I'm an ordinary user, and I don't want the new version…..but when I uninstall Skype, it looks like yes, everything disappears…—however, the next time I start the PC, it's there again (a kind of semi-version, although it's not working, that no one told me he can't call, but he's still there, still taking up space... :-(( )
in one word – disaster
Whatever the MS reaches for, it goes to waste. I've been using FaceTime since I got my first iPhone. I can't complain, he calls, I see, I send what I want, so a full replacement.
Skype is absolutely horrible, confusing, and for the fact that it is integrated into Win 10, the notifications work very chaotically and I have completely stopped using it. Now I only have WhatsApp + Viber.
This is just a transition scenario. Non-business Skype is dead ... replacing it Microsoft Teams, which has significantly more functionality and is free for personal use and small companies.
I would like to remove all of the above, I just need the most basic functions for business use chat. But that's completely correct.... search in conversations/chatWow, I wouldn't have expected that - it eliminates even the last bit of usability! The search efficiency is now about 3%, and I'm really not exaggerating (I'm reviewing the Mac version).
They only invent nonsense and complicate people's lives. I'll just stop using SKYPE, simple as that.
I have to say that I used the previous skype and the newer versions, I say what the hell is the new one, I stopped using skype because I use Teamspeak or discord
Unfortunately, what for? Microsoft if it touches, it will fertilize. I have used Skype on my PC sporadically for many years, but what it has done with the new version is crazy. Everyone here in chatu are right that the new Skype is shit…
I often use the new Skype and I am very dissatisfied with it. The image freezes and the sound is not as good as with the older version. I am sorry that something that works is being canceled and users are forced to do something that does not work
That's just how it goes. You can't stop progress!!! All beautiful things come to an end!
The previous version of Skype was much better, simple, but now it's just terrible, you should bring it back, you keep updating something and it's getting worse and worse.
I am not at all satisfied with my new skype, the picture cuts and the sound is bad.
The new Skype is terrible, bad picture, sound. It is confusing, the older version was excellent. I don't know why you are forcing us into something that is not functional. You must have learned from most of the users what I wrote to you.
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The skype program is worth licking your ass, since it was bought by a degenerate company from Ussa, the biggest terrorists in today's world. Kiss my ass, dicks and ass climbers.