Christ the new Skype is awful. What were MS thinking?

[Ron Obvious]

I held on to Skype Classic (7) as long as I could despite all the warnings about it soon to be discontinued.

Well, that happened today and I had to upgrade. I'd tried that before, shuddered, and reinstalled Skype Classic.

I, like millions of others, want separate contact and chat windows. I utterly detest this single view monstrosity.
Why do I suddenly have hundreds of contacts in my list, including all the bots who sent me friend requests that I've ignored? I've ignored them for a reason, you know.

And that's just for starters.

Every version since MS bought Skype has literally been worse than the previous one, removing useful features such as displaying the local time of the person you're chatting with. Why can't that be brought back?

If I were more cynical, I'd suspect MS were actively trying to drive people away from Skype.

Yuck!

[LongtimeAZDem]

1. Ask for your money back /nt

[Ron Obvious]

2. Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 billion back in 2011

Why do you think that is?

I wish they hadn't.

[earthshine]

3. Agreed. It's awful. Just like so many of MS's so-called innovations.

I gave up using Skype when they created that new format with all that stupid artwork.

Yes. Yuck!