After being acquired by Microsoft, their product strategy for Skype was unclear. It was still offered as a standalone application, and at one point it got Faceb

After being acquired by Microsoft, their product strategy for Skype was unclear. It was still offered as a standalone application, and at one point it got Facebook login integration and eventually Microsoft account integration. In 2013, they shut down WLM [1] and told everyone to use Skype. Meanwhile on Windows Phone, it was discontinued on WP7 [2], while WP8 had native 'iMessage'-equivalent apps backended by Skype, but also a downloadable Skype app. If you installed both, you got double notifications. Was it supposed to be the platform-native messenger? On the phone, the answer was 'yes', but on the desktop it was 'no', or 'not yet'. Desktop Windows 8 eventually also got a Metro app, but then it was killed [3]. Now they're about to release another one [4]. [1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/15/3991370/windows-live-messenger-skype-upgrade-april-onwards http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/15/3991370/windows-live-messe... [2] http://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-discontinues-skype-windows-phone-7 http://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-discontinues-skype-w... [3] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/microsoft-dropping-metro-skype-app-going-back-to-the-desktop/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/micros... [4] http://blogs.skype.com/2016/03/24/skype-universal-windows-platform-app-preview-for-windows-10-is-coming-to-windows-insiders/ http://blogs.skype.com/2016/03/24/skype-universal-windows-pl...