Last year Microsoft discontinued the touch Skype app for Windows 8 and made separate messaging and video calling applications for Windows 10. "This is why we are introducing the Skype Universal Windows Platform app".
Stafford went on to describe the relationship between function-specific apps and the UWP in terms of fruit.
The initial version of the Skype UWP app will ship in a Windows 10 Insider Preview build in the next few weeks, and it will be incomplete. And most people who try them don't like them. Obviously, Microsoft will keep the Skype desktop application around for previous Windows versions.
Now Microsoft is changing tack again. "For these guys, what they wanted from us is continuing to improve features and performance. You can think about that as ultimately replacing the Win32 app on larger screens and the Silverlight app on Windows Phone". With this in mind, we released built-in, task oriented apps.
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Emoticons and emoji will be available, and users will also be able to see what the other person is typing in chats.
The app has all of the core features of Skype and in the next couple of releases, it will get the ability to start a chat with anyone using or not using Skype, group voice and video calling, screen sharing and much more. Hopefully, these features will be added to the camera app in the near future.
The Windows 10 Mobile users will be happy to hear that Microsoft has updated the Camera and Photos (from 16.201.16372 to 16.317.14282) apps, and, from now on, when viewing a photo, the users will be able to print the image by clicking on the ellipsis menu (...). The app is asynchronous in nature so messages can be viewed live or later, and all conversations are stored on Glide's secure private cloud to not eat up precious space on your phone.
Turns out, though, that while users on mobile love having lots of different single-task apps, desktop users didn't really care for this approach (even though they say they do when asked in surveys). "I can't comment on that", said Stafford, though logically this is what should happen.
Microsoft today launched a preview of the next version of Skype for Windows 10. Eventually, a version for Windows 10 Mobile will appear too, also in the Insider Preview.
As a popular first-party application, Skype gave Microsoft an opportunity to show the benefits of Windows 10, but instead it has illustrated the pitfalls of supporting two distinct platforms within one operating system. You can also find more in the FAQ document here.
That's now changing: Microsoft is building a UWP app that will eventually integrate all of the legacy Skype program's features, and more.
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