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WP7: No more Skype updates

article published on 20 September, 2013

Microsoft will provide no more updates for Skype on Windows Phone 7, the Skype blog has revealed. The Skype for Windows Phone 8 app has been getting quite a few updates as of late. It was the first Skype mobile app to offer HD video calling, and more recently, the Windows Phone 8 app got a new Video Messaging feature that allows you to record and leave video messages for contacts when ... [ read the full article ]

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SomeBozo
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_ 		21. September 2013 @ 03:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Interesting to see as M$ starts phasing out Win7 how customer sat is gonna go into the toilet...

Seems annoying as hell that Win8 has been hated by so many customers that M$ is now gonna start strong handing everyone to downgrade to Win8 by hook or by crook...

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Xian
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_ 		21. September 2013 @ 11:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That's been the typical Microsoft pattern for some time - forced obsolescence and leveraging one product to sell another. You have to upgrade to get this feature or to run this application. For example, Windows Vista was required for DirectX 10, when there was really not a technical boundary that couldn't have been overcome to run on XP.
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