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I'm pretty certain that Microsoft already (mostly) made this backward-incompatible move several years ago, when they shut down the last of their (old Skype prot
by rincebrain 10y ago
I'm pretty certain that Microsoft already (mostly) made this backward-incompatible move several years ago, when they shut down the last of their (old Skype protocol)<->(MSNP24) gateways in 2014, so any Skype clients that predate the MSNP24 support being added to Skype no longer work.
The thing they're doing now is probably either breaking Skypeweb backward compat or a rev on MSNP, depending on which mechanism the embedded clients use. Quickly reading the actual blog post that the Ars article is about [1] (which I couldn't find an obvious link to in the article) makes me think it's probably Skypeweb they're breaking.
[1] - http://blogs.skype.com/2016/07/20/skype-the-journey-weve-been-on/ http://blogs.skype.com/2016/07/20/skype-the-journey-weve-bee...
- wila 10y agoEeks, the one thing I depend on is dedicated skype hardware (eg Phones that have native skype support) Every time that "Skype is moving forward" things tend to break. Last time that happened I had random calling problems for months and had to fall back on using computers for skype to phone support. Eventually that got fixed. Frankly it has been quite good for a while, so ... suppose it is time again for some trouble. Might want to look into SIP if it happens again. Would be a pity as Skype has pretty good deals for international phone calls.
- kirkdouglas 10y agoI've just read the blog post and it seems that they will migrate Mac client to Electron soon. That sucks, since I like native Mac client.
- dingo_bat 10y agoAm electron app is 100x better than the "native" windows 10 Skype app. Seriously, the native windows apps are so thoroughly non native it blows my mind that Microsoft still employs a UI team.