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Skype 8.0 Launches on Desktop With Full-HD Video; To Soon Get Encryption and Call Recording Features (techcrunch.com)
Skype's redesign launched last year was met with mixed reviews, but the company is forging ahead by rolling out a number of its new features to other platforms, including the desktop. From a report: Microsoft today is launching Skype version 8.0 that will replace version 7.0 (aka Skype classic), the latter which will no longer function after September 1, 2018. The new release introduces a variety of features, including HD video and screen-sharing in calls, support for @mentions in chats, a chat media gallery, file and media sharing up to 300 MB, and more. It will also add several more features this summer, including most notably, supported for encrypted audio calls, texts, and file sharing as well as built-in call recording. The 8.0 release follows on the update to Skype desktop that rolled out last fall, largely focusing on upgrading the visual elements of new design, like the color-coding in chat messages and "reaction" emojis. This release also included the chat media gallery and file sharing support, which are touted as new today, but may have already hit your desktop.
Love it!
Skype jumped the sharked when they started forcing updates and moving encryption from peer-to-peer to server-side. /sarcasm Thanks NSA
For multi-chat our guild has moved off of TeamSpeak over to Discord / Mumble, but I'm not sure what people are using for 1-1 VOIP. What are people using as replacements for Skype?
What's the best way to "move" contacts off an old version, such as 6.x ?
Do the recent versions ensure an encrypted skype to skype call is a peer to peer communication without transiting through MS servers?
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
How utterly pathetic is that? It is 2018, people, wake up!
Sure, I know that they are listening in (and probably recording) everything anyways. Bit no encryption opens this up to any somewhat capable attacker as well and that is just not acceptable. Even if I am fine with the GeStaPo (i.e. NSA, GCHQ and their like) getting all my Skype voice recordings, I am not fine with JRandomCriminal being able to do the same.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Really. We had these features in skype in 2010. Why are they redoing it for the umptheenth time?
or does that only work for Microsoft and government agencies? But hey, keep on using Skype.
Thats like mad future shit, I don't even know if my ISDN can handle it....
Are there air quotes around the word "encryption" here?
I think probably so.
8.0? 8.19 was available back in April, the current version is 8.25, what is this nonsense?
The interface is a space wasting disaster and is built on C++, .NET XML, SQLite and node.js (compiled) FFMPEG and a whole bunch of open source, its a mishmash of shitty languages by idiot programmers who couldnt stick with a single language, oh and wheres the source code fuckfaces ?
Google is losing this battle and a whole lot of subscription money that will go with it.
Where are they???
I still do not know how to send a text message to a contact's mobile phone via Skype. I figured it once or twice and it was totally unintuitive and I don't remember anymore (push a button in the upper left corner and then at the bottom right or something like that). And sometimes it is not possible to answer a Skype call. (I push all available buttons and then end-up returning the call myself). So, pretty please - rather than annoy customers with upgraded colour schemes and having to re-login after each update, fix the simple things first.
The Skype client (at least on Linux) has been torturous for ages, so I use the pidgin plugin. When Microsoft cuts off Skype 7.0, is that going to break things for pidgin as well?
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What is the point of all of this??
Skype is a tool for point to point contact..
Whats the need for the fancy crap??
i just have one question, who designed the new skype gui and who is the genius behind microsoft remote desktop for osx, its like the new mac touch bar, just awful stuff, anything they touch just become big fat smelly fart
End-to-end encryption, open-source for verifiability, support for every platform that matters, periodic updates. Text, voice, and video. What more does anyone need?
Key escrow so they can listen in and kill button to stop you recording!
Still looks like shit
Also still runs like shit.
The millennial that doesn't like most of the stuff designed for millennials.
The previous version of Skype on my Win 10 machine was 12, I tried to upgrade it to version 8 but it would not let me. I had to un-install version 12 then re-install version 8. Perhaps version Skype version 12 was a Windows Oreo App and Skype Version 8 is the new Desktop version? I'm confused.
I'm a contractor. Place where I work ATM has Skype for Business.
I have never seen a worse piece of software.
I can *just about* use it to write messages to a colleague *for a single, current conversation*.
What I mean by this is that after a few minutes, they disappear and I can't get them back, so there's no history.
Sending files doesn't work.
Adding people to the contact list doesn't work about 50% of the time - "you can't add someone right now". I retry a few minutes later, it works.
The UI is bizzare. Little lights, buttons, icons, none of which convey a single iota of meaning to me.
I have 0% trust in MS for privacy and encryption and of course in the workplace, all conversations must be regarded are being read by all management. I have to visit people to have quiet words with them about important but sensitive matters.
It's a completely appalling failure of the first order.
The place where I'm at though gravitate with enourmous skill to the worst possible software - consistently, in all spheres. If this place uses it, you know it's the worst possible choice. They use Skype.
Talk about rewriting history - Skype v1 could do 2GB and also had that smart relay feature (speed limited at 4k/s) so transfers always worked, even on firewalled/proxied links.
Includes servers that run "Legal Intercept" spyware accessible to Microsoft and anyone they give license to, including police without valid search warrants and our deep state friends in Washington who control the IRS, EPA and the BLM, among other agencies. Encryption is meaningless when Microsoft controls access to your voice and picture before encryption is applied.
Running with Linux for over 20 years!
So itâ(TM)s encrypted but still allowed inside China.
Hmmm
I see all Microsoft customers as the victims of an abusive relationship who believe their abuser when told they couldn't function in another relationship. It's sad....
When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law he tore his robes.2Kings22:11
Lol! He called one of the brit divers a pedo? Classic.
Fat limey sexpats BTFO
Jitsi effortlessly did HD ZRTP (= no CA) video conferencing over SIP and XMPP a decade ago. In fact any resolution you like would have worked.
Apart from OTP (done right), secure tunnelling, and a shitton of configuration options, with good defaults, so you did not have to touch any of them unless you wanted.
And support for every chat network under the sun, plus IRC.
For companies it was awesome, since its provisioning support meant a user could just put a URL into it, and have it set up exactly as the admin wanted. Avoids the entire hassle of setting up and testing the best SIP options.
So congratulations on finally arriving in the year 2008, Microsoft.
Now get on to making a window manager that is not from the 80s!
As usual, like with Steam, it's just Windows software with tightly integrated Wine and some hacks that make it look like a Linux program on first look, and like a horrible nasty grafted-on monstrosity on every other look.
Not a single thing inside the package is done in a Linux way.
It now appears to now be impossible to turn off emoticons.
This makes Skype almost useless for many of my business needs e.g. sending a code snippet to a coworker.
Rebranded lync takes about a minute to startup on most machines here at work. Skype never took so long to sign in. Skype is dead to me.
...do file sharing now? I'm not sure. Does it say so somewhere in the summary?
Lol, sit down sonny. Time for a history lesson.
Skype was a good, solid, encrypted, peer-to-peer application. Then Microsoft bought them. Then this happened: https://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-...
I stopped using Skype after MS totally fucked it up.
/.ers still using Skype?
How many
please not that the ', please' part in the title above is not an instruction ;-)
Firejail, is.
https://sourceforge.net/projec...
It works perfectly here on U16.04, and also with Signal...
Herve S.
Check this out https://superuser.com/questions/811918/escape-skype-messages-to-use-special-character-combinations
Tox had encryption from the beginning
Works in many browsers.
You can host it yourself if you want to.
Musk is basically a modern day PT Barnum, he's an attention whore of the highest caliber who incidentally does some good stuff.
Cheap storage VM.