Skype - Completely redesigned with GIFs, group video chat, & stories

Didn't we share our skype ID's for official purpose? Can't imagine sharing stories with clients. Anyways with that upgrade please fix the calling, need to keep restarting Skype to make it work. 😅😆

Reliable video chat?

Nobody "gets" the negativty, but skype is a poor product to begin with. They should fix their video quality first. I understand Skype is positioned as a "professional" software, but it's not really if you compare it to Zoom or Goto Meeting.

This move seems desperate and like Microsoft are playing catchup with no real insight into what Skype's core proposition is. Not sure why they've gone this route, skype is a powerful professional communication tool, I would have loved to see more features to make it a better experience for my professional calls and meetings. I can see how they may want to appeal to families (i.e. chatting with grandparents) but that is the wrong market to focus on in my opinion. Build on your strengths and double down on your niche rather than diluting the proposition. Also having just watched their video on the release, it clearly shows they are completely alienating their professional users. Focusing solely on a younger demographic who use Skype to video chat with family. Unless internal data shows that more than 90% of skype users use it for family calls and only 10% use it for professional calls then I'd say this is completely the wrong move. Also why on earth was that family so weirdly diverse. I'm all for diversity in ads but that seemed like overkill :P

Good fresh approach. It never hurts riding the stream ...

Something is missing. Discord is takin all over it.

Pros:

Design

Cons:

Something's still missing

I wonder if I can finally log in with facebook on android

What on earth..

Skype managed to fail the very first part of a SaaS: authentication. If I have to call customer service to get my account login working again, I'm sorry, there's no hope.

Stories on stories on stories on stories!!! Will it ever end?!?