Microsofted

Horribly unusable. I hoped they wouldnt try to "fix" something that was working perfectly well before, but alas, Skype has been Microsofted.

Basically, they looked at Instagram and dreamed that one day they could grow up to be cool and colorful too. So they gave their bored UI designers free reign to do whatever and the result is an Insta clone that makes it extremely difficult to do what you originally downloaded Skype for.

Like contacting the actual person or group you are looking for. No, no, its clearly more important to share a recorded video to your profile than to have a video conference... its not like you opened your Skype instead of Insta/Snap to video chat with someone directly.

Want to change your status to offline or away so youre not interrupted during a meeting? No, no, thats not what social media is about, you should be constantly connected and sharing. Oh, thats right! Skype isnt a social media app, it was a solid chat/video communication app I used for personal and work communication! Whoops.

Looks like they want Skype free to die a slow death while they force all their business users into Ex-Lync/Skype for Business. Oh, wait, you mean theres no way to import my decade worth of contacts into Skype for Business? Can I at least keep my same ID so my contacts dont lose me on their list? Oh well. Microsofted.

Eliney about Skype for iPhone, v8.2