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Microsoft Killing off the Old Skype Client, Adding Built-in Call Recording

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday July 18 2018, @12:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the well-skype-me dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Ars Technica:

Coming over the summer, Microsoft is going to add integrated call recording (something that previously required third-party applications and a deprecated API), read receipts to show when a message recipient has read a message, and end-to-end encryption of text and audio chat using the Signal protocol.

Microsoft is also making Skype audio and video calls easier to integrate into streams such as those used on Mixer and Twitch. Support for the NDI API means that streaming applications such as Xsplit and OBS can use a Skype call as an audio/video source. That means they can be overlaid on games or other content, just as is already done with webcam input.

Will the changes come in time to save Skype's userbase?

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  • (Score: 2) by Apparition on Wednesday July 18 2018, @03:37AM (1 child)

    by Apparition (6835) on Wednesday July 18 2018, @03:37AM (#708644) Journal

    Tell me about it. Seven years ago, most people I know used Skype. Now, they all use Discord. I can't see this update bringing them back.

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  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday July 18 2018, @07:28AM

    by driverless (4770) on Wednesday July 18 2018, @07:28AM (#708697)

    That's the problem with Skype. With Windows 10, Microsoft can afford to force people to switch to it a gunpoint because for many there's no alternative. For Skype there are a lot of alternatives, and the ram-it-down-your-throat approach that they used with Win10 isn't going to work when it's trivial to switch to vastly better alternative products. They would actually have to compete on features and performance and usability there, and, well... Microsoft? Compete on that basis?