Skype has gone down hill terribly since being acquired by Microsoft. You can almost draw a line in the sand it's been so bad.
I used to use skype for texting people, but it's now completely useless for that. They can't receive any SMS messages from any phones (at least in the US), and who knows if what you send actually goes somewhere. Nevermind they advertise this feature when you're signing up. Its shocking they would allow a feature like that to still exist and just be fundamentally broken. They did recently move it to some obscure place in the UI in a recent "update" and not even one of their support people knew where it had gone; I had to find it again myself.
That said, all the recent UI updates have been horrible. Not just talking buggy, but the general look and feel has gone way down hill. I had an old laptop with an older version of the Skype client and its amazing the different. They should have left well enough alone.
Add in the super annoying birthday notifications as chat messages, the spam that has gotten out of control, broken payments recharge/web UI, it's a wonder Microsoft should just shutter the entire product down. It's ruined and I have stopped using it. It's clear they do not care about their end users, or improving the product in any sustainable way.
I wonder how long before the same happens with LinkedIn (which is already on the deathbed in terms of how bad and buggy it's been getting lately).
I used to use skype for texting people, but it's now completely useless for that. They can't receive any SMS messages from any phones (at least in the US), and who knows if what you send actually goes somewhere. Nevermind they advertise this feature when you're signing up. Its shocking they would allow a feature like that to still exist and just be fundamentally broken. They did recently move it to some obscure place in the UI in a recent "update" and not even one of their support people knew where it had gone; I had to find it again myself.
That said, all the recent UI updates have been horrible. Not just talking buggy, but the general look and feel has gone way down hill. I had an old laptop with an older version of the Skype client and its amazing the different. They should have left well enough alone.
Add in the super annoying birthday notifications as chat messages, the spam that has gotten out of control, broken payments recharge/web UI, it's a wonder Microsoft should just shutter the entire product down. It's ruined and I have stopped using it. It's clear they do not care about their end users, or improving the product in any sustainable way.
I wonder how long before the same happens with LinkedIn (which is already on the deathbed in terms of how bad and buggy it's been getting lately).