The death of Skype 7 (or Skype classic) has been delayed, following "customer feedback", according to Microsoft.
Microsoft originally announced on July 16 that classic Skype would be discontinued on Sept. 1, 2018 and encouraged users to upgrade to version 8.0. After many lamented the "upgrade" and clogged up the comments on the original discontinuation blog post, Microsoft have decided to continue supporting Skype 7 for "some time".
The message that was left on the original post, as reported by Microsoft blog Thurrott, was simple: "Thanks for all your comments - we are listening." A Microsoft spokesperson told CNET they have nothing more to share beyond the blog post at this time.
[...] It appears, for now, that Skype classic will continue being supported -- at least until Microsoft can transplant much-loved features to its updated version.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 09 2018, @03:01PM (4 children)
I am not kidding, almost every update I accept these days is a regression. Useful features are removed, menu layouts are changed, while it gets slower and stuff like white space and large pointless images are added.
There is something seriously wrong with the software dev community. I suspect its the reliance on AB testing, which is just NHST. That's the method for interpreting data that destroyed education research, sociology, and psychology. Other fields like Medical research are now 90+% worthless, and it looks like physics is on the brink of allowing this BS to dominate (currently its still just one part of the analysis). So, why not let it destroy software development as well?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bob_super on Thursday August 09 2018, @04:32PM
The problem is that they are focusing one adding things I personally don't give a shit about, but are trendy: more white space, more flatness, more social media, more crypto-currency-harvesting-in-the-background ...
I use one function in skype: Video-calling my mom. Just that. The client from 15 years ago did that, and she got used to it. Any GUI change done ever since has just made this very fundamental and basic function less central, which is pretty fucking dumb.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 09 2018, @05:34PM
Every UI decision is being driven by the use of teeny screens on phones and the use of thumbs
because that where the sheeple are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 09 2018, @07:55PM (1 child)
Sometimes I wonder how much malware has infected my PC due to my lack of updates. It is a sad state of affairs when you distrust vendor updates enough to avoid them. If I have gotten anything it has been pretty innocuous, but then again I don't frequent the same places as jmorris >:P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 10 2018, @01:42AM
You sound like the sort of person who frequents the TSA check-in lines. You may have no intentions of flying, but you'll drive to the airport to get into a queue to be groped.