Skype

Well, Skype has changed for the better. The audio test finally works for me. There are so many changes I got rid of a file I was sharing called How New Skype Looks and Some Notes About It. The interface is totally different with some sluggish things, such as when I go to contacts, I have to press enter on all, change it to Skype and press enter again to select Skype contacts. I wish this setting would be remembered. Hopefully, in a future update, this will be addressed.

I'm thinking maybe Microsoft is unifying the two versions of Skype they still have.

Over all, this new version is much easier to use and more customizable.

I might add that this Skype update occurred when I got a feature update to Windows. I don't know if this update is done when that feature update isn't shown on a system for whatever reason.

Ah, if you're talking about the built in skype on win10, yes, that works very well. But I don't care about skype 8

Some people find Skype 8 more accessible, but I won't ever know about that one as I can't get it. I'm used to the one for Windows 10 anyway, so all is good. This one is definitely getting better. They seem to listen to feedback and that's also very good.

The Skype app wich is preinstaled in Windows 10 has ben updated. The design is now the same like in Skype 8 for Windows 7 and 8.

It is probably more like Skype 8 than it is like Skype 7, which will soon be discontinued if Microsoft keeps its word this time, Skype 7 or Classic that is.

I really like the new layout and such.

I tried the classic skype, and it didn't work for me. Don't know why. At the moment, don't feel the need to use skype. I'm using windows 8, so guess skype is out for the moment.

It's all in what you want or really need at any given time. Skype Classic is on the way out, sad, but true.

I know that. I just mean, it's strange that skype classic didn't work with NVDA. No reading of messages, or anything like that.

Yep, strange as it did here. Now, in the newest Win 10 version, messages read automatically but the only way to get a message repeated is to shift tab to find the messages list. Oh well.

It is just great to hear somebody say positive things about Skype. I've been hearing a lot of negative things about Skype lately, and about Windows in general.

I was one of those nay-sayers for awhile, especially when stuff that should work didn't, but with this new feature update it's definitely coming into its own again. I'm a loyal Skype user.

The developers really listen to feedback and regard it as very important.

I kinda have to say that Microsoft is kinda destroying skype and windows in general, from what I hird, they are going to kill the control panel

Oh well, the control panel thing is fading out anyway. Hey, I wish it wouldn't but change happens.

I love Win 10 in general, so I have to respectfully disagree that Microsoft is killing stuff, but each to his or her own.

While I do like the settings app, I do often use control pannel over it. For nstance, how do you change tts settings in the win10 app? But I dout that I'll miss control panel much anyway.

There's a thing called god mode that I've put on my desktop and it puts all the settings in one convenient folder.

And, in settings, the sound settings is the way to go to do all your sound stuff.

I love God Mode. It is very useful.

In my shared files, I have put up my stuff about the new Skype, (UWP for Windows 10), for anyone interested. This is version fourteen-something, so if you have an earlier version, say twelve-something, then don't bother getting this, unless you want to know what's down the road for ya, smiles.

A recent update made me rewrite my file, the one I referred to in my previous post. It's up now in my shared files. Annoying, but this is how it is in the ever-changing world of technology.