July 7, 2017

Microsoft boasted it had rebuilt Skype ‘from the ground up’. Instead, it should have buried it

Chief among the issues is that the redesign imagines Skype as a youth-oriented social media app along the lines of Instagram or Snapchat, rather than a staid business communications tool.

I wanted to give the new version a chance… and I hate it so much. An I told you so is in order.

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