UK and US Get Skype Video Messaging

[JMcEntegart]

Now you can send a video message to your friends and family using Skype.

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[southernshark]

Not even offered for Windows 8 / W8 phones yet........ Kind of sad.

 

[Soda-88]

Wtf? Why would Microsoft make it available on non-Windows devices only at first?
Not that I'll ever use it but still.

 

[IndignantSkeptic]

What reason would they have for it not being worldwide except perhaps because some Internet infrastructure in some regions of the world is pathetic. That doesn't seem to be the case here though because these countries don't have the best Internet. Could it be government corruption?

 

[lradunovic77]

Skype -> being very slow lately and bloated. Time to find an alternative.

 

[everlast66]

That's very surprising for me. They normally don't keep the plain text messages on their servers when the receiver is offline. If user A sends a message to user B while B is offline, the message will stay on the sender's computer until BOTH go online at the same time and it leads to confusion. For example I ask someone who just went offline, and when I happen to meet the same person online a few days later the message goes through in the background and the other person starts replying me about something I already forgot days ago.
And now they've decided adding video messages that I assume are going to be kept on their servers and take tons more space.

 

[jhansonxi]

[citation][nom]Soda-88[/nom]Wtf? Why would Microsoft make it available on non-Windows devices only at first?Not that I'll ever use it but still.[/citation]It will be interesting to see if the Linux version is updated before the Windows version.

 

[shadowfamicom]

[citation][nom]everlast66[/nom]That's very surprising for me. They normally don't keep the plain text messages on their servers when the receiver is offline. If user A sends a message to user B while B is offline, the message will stay on the sender's computer until BOTH go online at the same time and it leads to confusion. For example I ask someone who just went offline, and when I happen to meet the same person online a few days later the message goes through in the background and the other person starts replying me about something I already forgot days ago.And now they've decided adding video messages that I assume are going to be kept on their servers and take tons more space.[/citation]

Yeah that annoys the crap out of me. I use skype all the time and even have a premuim account... and the fact they they don't store plain text on their servers is stupid. Lots of free to play online games can do it just fine, you would think that one of the worlds most video/messaging/phone client would do it too. Hell they already have voice messages you can leave in skype...

 

[keyholder]

skype used to be good. fast , stable, did what it advertised.. now its over bloated turd.. now with microsuck having its greedy hands around it i can see it sinking fast.

 

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