Why did they ruin Skype

Rant number 75.

For some reason I looked at Skype on win10. They call it Skype Preview
and it comes preloaded, but apparently it's not a preview of better
things to come, it's the only Skype you can get.

But they don't tell you this so I had to google skype and when that
didn't help I googled skype win10 and you'd think that would do it
but I still had to hunt before I found that Skype Preview was the only
Skype I could get.

And boy did they ruin it. Ever since MS bought it I guess, but I also
started it on my XP netbook and it updated before starting to the most
recent version, which is copyright 2016 but works the same and looks
just as nice as any previous version.

But in Win10, it's all black like Skype is part of a motorcycle gang**,
, nothing is the same. and when I found my list of people I call, which
in the old version and the current XP version is in the first screen
that shows, when I found the list and I click on a name, it doesn't show
the phone number, which is the reason I look there half the time. Maybe
if I called them, and it's 2:30 at night, I could see the phone number
that way. Oh, I can right click and click View Profile and then in
very small print it has the number, but I have to do that for every
single entry. . Why do they make it so hard?

**and some of the white letters are so dim I have to move to less than a
foot from the screen to read them. My sister-in-law's name looks like a
dim neon light that's broken in parts. Only the top of the R and the
right side of the a are dim. The rest is very dim.

I should give them credit for still having an XP version, but I'm not in
the mood. .

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 25 Nov 2016 02:32:41 -0500, micky
wrote:

Rant number 75.

For some reason I looked at Skype on win10. They call it Skype Preview
and it comes preloaded, but apparently it's not a preview of better
things to come, it's the only Skype you can get.

But they don't tell you this so I had to google skype and when that
didn't help I googled skype win10 and you'd think that would do it
but I still had to hunt before I found that Skype Preview was the only
Skype I could get.

And boy did they ruin it. Ever since MS bought it I guess, but I also
started it on my XP netbook and it updated before starting to the most
recent version, which is copyright 2016 but works the same and looks
just as nice as any previous version.

But in Win10, it's all black like Skype is part of a motorcycle gang**,

I finally came across Light Mode, which is legible. It's remotely
conceivable that the computer vendor I bought this from, who had
upgraded it from 7 to 10 put it into Dark Mode, but I doubt he looked at
more than the Desktop and one sample program.

, nothing is the same. and when I found my list of people I call, which
in the old version and the current XP version is in the first screen
that shows, when I found the list and I click on a name, it doesn't show
the phone number, which is the reason I look there half the time. Maybe
if I called them, and it's 2:30 at night, I could see the phone number
that way. Oh, I can right click and click View Profile and then in
very small print it has the number, but I have to do that for every
single entry. . Why do they make it so hard?

**and some of the white letters are so dim I have to move to less than a
foot from the screen to read them. My sister-in-law's name looks like a
dim neon light that's broken in parts. Only the top of the R and the
right side of the a are dim. The rest is very dim.

I should give them credit for still having an XP version, but I'm not in
the mood. .

On 25/11/2016 3:32 PM, micky wrote:
Rant number 75.

For some reason I looked at Skype on win10. They call it Skype Preview
and it comes preloaded, but apparently it's not a preview of better
things to come, it's the only Skype you can get.

You can always install older versions of Skype.

On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 02:32:41 -0500, micky
wrote in

But they don't tell you this so I had to google skype and when that
didn't help I googled skype win10 and you'd think that would do it
but I still had to hunt before I found that Skype Preview was the only
Skype I could get.

And boy did they ruin it.

MS does that a lot.
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On 2016-11-25 2:32 AM, micky wrote:
Rant number 75.

For some reason I looked at Skype on win10. They call it Skype Preview
and it comes preloaded, but apparently it's not a preview of better
things to come, it's the only Skype you can get.

But they don't tell you this so I had to google skype and when that
didn't help I googled skype win10 and you'd think that would do it
but I still had to hunt before I found that Skype Preview was the only
Skype I could get.

And boy did they ruin it. Ever since MS bought it I guess, but I also
started it on my XP netbook and it updated before starting to the most
recent version, which is copyright 2016 but works the same and looks
just as nice as any previous version.

But in Win10, it's all black like Skype is part of a motorcycle gang**,
, nothing is the same. and when I found my list of people I call, which
in the old version and the current XP version is in the first screen
that shows, when I found the list and I click on a name, it doesn't show
the phone number, which is the reason I look there half the time. Maybe
if I called them, and it's 2:30 at night, I could see the phone number
that way. Oh, I can right click and click View Profile and then in
very small print it has the number, but I have to do that for every
single entry. . Why do they make it so hard?

**and some of the white letters are so dim I have to move to less than a
foot from the screen to read them. My sister-in-law's name looks like a
dim neon light that's broken in parts. Only the top of the R and the
right side of the a are dim. The rest is very dim.

I should give them credit for still having an XP version, but I'm not in
the mood. .

I tried liking Skype but there are a few things going against it:

1) the interface is terrible. It takes up the whole screen for no good
reason and bundles ads that nobody would appreciate.
2) it doesn't integrate properly with Windows 10. If you use the metro
app, you get few features but at least it integrates with the rest of
the operating system; if you use the desktop app, you get all of the
features minus the integration
3) nobody uses it anymore as a result of Facebook being a lot more
convenient and giving you many of the same features

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micky on Fri, 25 Nov 2016 02:32:41 -0500
typed in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general the following:
Rant number 75.

For some reason I looked at Skype on win10. They call it Skype Preview
and it comes preloaded, but apparently it's not a preview of better
things to come, it's the only Skype you can get.

But they don't tell you this so I had to google skype and when that
didn't help I googled skype win10 and you'd think that would do it
but I still had to hunt before I found that Skype Preview was the only
Skype I could get.

And boy did they ruin it. Ever since MS bought it I guess, but I also
started it on my XP netbook and it updated before starting to the most
recent version, which is copyright 2016 but works the same and looks
just as nice as any previous version.

But in Win10, it's all black like Skype is part of a motorcycle gang**,
, nothing is the same. and when I found my list of people I call, which
in the old version and the current XP version is in the first screen
that shows, when I found the list and I click on a name, it doesn't show
the phone number, which is the reason I look there half the time. Maybe
if I called them, and it's 2:30 at night, I could see the phone number
that way. Oh, I can right click and click View Profile and then in
very small print it has the number, but I have to do that for every
single entry. . Why do they make it so hard?

But it is "in", it is the stylish way to do things. All the top
designers agree, that grey text on a white background enhances the
computer experience. Along with the flashing widgets, the drop down
banners which won't go away, and the "forward this to your social
media which cover the left side of the screen. "Its in. totes kewl,
ya know." Never mind those nutjobs who are trying to use the
computer, they just have no aesthetic sense.
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Silver Slimer on Fri, 25 Nov 2016 08:09:01 -0500 typed in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general the following:
I tried liking Skype but there are a few things going against it:

1) the interface is terrible. It takes up the whole screen for no good
reason and bundles ads that nobody would appreciate.
2) it doesn't integrate properly with Windows 10. If you use the metro
app, you get few features but at least it integrates with the rest of
the operating system; if you use the desktop app, you get all of the
features minus the integration
3) nobody uses it anymore as a result of Facebook being a lot more
convenient and giving you many of the same features

Nobody, except for various community colleges which seem to think
that having to learn a new set of software just to find your what your
assignments are and how to turn them in, etc, every quarter somehow
enhances the education experience.
Fnord - I can learn the "new and improved" interface, or the
subject - which one do they want, and which one did I pay to learn?

tschus
pyotr
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On 11/25/2016 01:17 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
Never mind those nutjobs who are trying to use the
computer, they just have no aesthetic sense.
Or those massive # of baby boomers with lessening eyesight.

pyotr filipivich wrote:
micky on Fri, 25 Nov 2016 02:32:41 -0500
typed in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general the following:
Rant number 75.

For some reason I looked at Skype on win10. They call it Skype Preview
and it comes preloaded, but apparently it's not a preview of better
things to come, it's the only Skype you can get.
(snip)

But it is "in", it is the stylish way to do things. All the top
designers agree, that grey text on a white background enhances the
computer experience. Along with the flashing widgets, the drop down
banners which won't go away, and the "forward this to your social
media which cover the left side of the screen. "Its in. totes kewl,
ya know." Never mind those nutjobs who are trying to use the
computer, they just have no aesthetic sense.

Agreed.
My employer installs Win7 Skype 7.3.0.101 on our computers, thousands of them.

Facebook is generally not allowed by serious business and government in the USA.
Maybe it's used by California techie companies that we really don't need.

On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 02:32:41 -0500, micky wrote:

Rant number 75.

For some reason I looked at Skype on win10. They call it Skype Preview
and it comes preloaded, but apparently it's not a preview of better
things to come, it's the only Skype you can get.


Have you tried one of these old versions?

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=old+version+skype


[Followup set to only the Windows 10 newsgroup.]


But they don't tell you this so I had to google skype and when that
didn't help I googled skype win10 and you'd think that would do it
but I still had to hunt before I found that Skype Preview was the only
Skype I could get.

And boy did they ruin it. Ever since MS bought it I guess, but I also
started it on my XP netbook and it updated before starting to the most
recent version, which is copyright 2016 but works the same and looks
just as nice as any previous version.

But in Win10, it's all black like Skype is part of a motorcycle gang**,
, nothing is the same. and when I found my list of people I call, which
in the old version and the current XP version is in the first screen
that shows, when I found the list and I click on a name, it doesn't show
the phone number, which is the reason I look there half the time. Maybe
if I called them, and it's 2:30 at night, I could see the phone number
that way. Oh, I can right click and click View Profile and then in
very small print it has the number, but I have to do that for every
single entry. . Why do they make it so hard?

**and some of the white letters are so dim I have to move to less than a
foot from the screen to read them. My sister-in-law's name looks like a
dim neon light that's broken in parts. Only the top of the R and the
right side of the a are dim. The rest is very dim.

I should give them credit for still having an XP version, but I'm not in
the mood. .


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Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 25/11/2016 3:32 PM, micky wrote:
Rant number 75.

For some reason I looked at Skype on win10. They call it Skype Preview
and it comes preloaded, but apparently it's not a preview of better
things to come, it's the only Skype you can get.

You can always install older versions of Skype.

I think the oldest version you can still use (at least on XP) is 6.14 or
6.16.
At least, that's what I found when I installed it some time ago on my XP
computer and laptop. I seem to recall that if you tried installing an even
older version for less bloat, it forced you to upgrade.

On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 19:32:50 -0000, Paul in Houston TX
wrote:

pyotr filipivich wrote:
micky on Fri, 25 Nov 2016 02:32:41 -0500
typed in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general the following:
Rant number 75.

For some reason I looked at Skype on win10. They call it Skype Preview
and it comes preloaded, but apparently it's not a preview of better
things to come, it's the only Skype you can get.
(snip)

But it is "in", it is the stylish way to do things. All the top
designers agree, that grey text on a white background enhances the
computer experience. Along with the flashing widgets, the drop down
banners which won't go away, and the "forward this to your social
media which cover the left side of the screen. "Its in. totes kewl,
ya know." Never mind those nutjobs who are trying to use the
computer, they just have no aesthetic sense.

Agreed.
My employer installs Win7 Skype 7.3.0.101 on our computers, thousands of
them.

Facebook is generally not allowed by serious business and government in
the USA.
Maybe it's used by California techie companies that we really don't need.


I have version 4 on this XP PC. It's stopped working. (auto sign-on takes
ages to fail).

FU XP group only
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On 11/25/2016 02:32 PM, Paul in Houston TX wrote:
(snip)

But it is "in", it is the stylish way to do things. All the top
designers agree, that grey text on a white background enhances the
computer experience. Along with the flashing widgets, the drop down
banners which won't go away, and the "forward this to your social
media which cover the left side of the screen. "Its in. totes kewl,
ya know." Never mind those nutjobs who are trying to use the
computer, they just have no aesthetic sense.

Agreed.
My employer installs Win7 Skype 7.3.0.101 on our computers, thousands of them.


Facebook is generally not allowed by serious business and government in the USA.

Maybe it's used by California techie companies that we really don't need.

I think pyotr was being sarcastic. Or I hope so.

In message , Mr. Man-wai Chang
writes:
On 25/11/2016 3:32 PM, micky wrote:
Rant number 75.

For some reason I looked at Skype on win10. They call it Skype Preview
and it comes preloaded, but apparently it's not a preview of better
things to come, it's the only Skype you can get.

You can always install older versions of Skype.

Doesn't it say "the version you have installed is more recent than the
one you're trying to install", or words to that effect, and refuse to go
on?
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Big Al on Fri, 25 Nov 2016 15:43:18 -0500 typed
in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general the following:
On 11/25/2016 02:32 PM, Paul in Houston TX wrote:
(snip)
But it is "in", it is the stylish way to do things. All the top
designers agree, that grey text on a white background enhances the
computer experience. Along with the flashing widgets, the drop down
banners which won't go away, and the "forward this to your social
media which cover the left side of the screen. "Its in. totes kewl,
ya know." Never mind those nutjobs who are trying to use the
computer, they just have no aesthetic sense.

Agreed.
My employer installs Win7 Skype 7.3.0.101 on our computers, thousands of them.

Facebook is generally not allowed by serious business and government in the USA.

Maybe it's used by California techie companies that we really don't need.

I think pyotr was being sarcastic. Or I hope so.

And Big Al wins the Gold Plated No-Prize!
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