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1. Skype today announced the release of Skype™ 2.8 Beta for Mac, the latest version of its internet communications software for Mac users. This new release, which was first demonstrated during ShowStoppers® at the Macworld Conference & Expo® in San Francisco, contains a number of new Skype features, including Skype Access™ and screen sharing.
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RE: Mac I have downloaded Skype 2.8 for Mac. Assume I need to set up account. Program won't take a password. - Answered by a verified Tech Support Specialist. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our website.

Who doesn’t love a little bit of Skype action? If you’re a Mac user, though, Skype 2.8 Gold adds (or improves on if you were using a beta version) some awesome features like screen sharing (you can even share just a part of your screen for privacy reasons), Skype Access, and improved audio and video support.

Skype Access is a way to pay for Wi-Fi hotspot access using your Skype account balance which can simplify things for those on the move we guess. Here’s a couple more updated features:. Improved chat management (sort chats, set priorities). Quick add (self explanatory but let’s you add new people to chats). Mood message chat (“it’s a bit like Twitter”). Support for large profile pictures. Hidden avatars in incoming contact requests.

Add notes to contacts Skype 2.8 Gold is available for download immediately from Skype’s website.

If you're using an older, outdated version of Skype, you may want to consider updating soon. Microsoft said today that starting on March 1 people, and version 7.18 of Skype for Mac and older versions thereof. VentureBeat reports: 'If you're one of those users, all you'll need to do is download the new update,' the Skype team said in a. This Skype is retiring old software. But that doesn't mean the upcoming move won't rankle some people. Version 7.18 of Skype for Mac and version 7.16 of Skype for Windows both came out less than a year and a half ago -.

So it's not as if this is very old software. Still, Microsoft has been doing a lot to improve Skype in the past year. It's been migrating the app to its Azure public cloud infrastructure,. Current versions of Skype - like version 7.44 for Mac - come with amenities like better previews of websites and better support for emoticons and other content in the input box for chats.

'We've poured our energy and passion into creating something truly special, and this is just the beginning,' Skype said. Subject: Microsoft disables p2p Skype protocol starting March 1, 2017 In a skype.com of Skype for Windows Microsoft has announced that starting March 1, 2017 older, skype.com of Skype will cease to work. This affects Skype for Windows versions 7.16 and below, Skype for Mac version 7.0 to 7.18 and the native Linux client (its only functional version 4.3). This news is especially unpleasant for Linux users of Skype, since the new 'cloud ready' version of Skype for Linux is nothing more than a packaged Google Chromium web browser with Node.js running a skype.com of Skype, which means its memory consumption is huge and it's unable to store your conversation history locally indefinitely like the native client did. One can only wonder why./ editors choose less informative posts over more informative ones. Maybe they get some form of benefit like kickback from the ad-revenue generated by linking to some sites over others?

There certainly seems to be a bit of a pattern of which sites are linked in the versions of accepted stories vs. Those that are rejected when you see dupes in the firehose. Ah, for days of yore, when editors would occasionally edit multiple submissions together. I don't know if they stopped doing that, or if so if it's because of laziness or because of the system for tracking submissions (but I repeat myself) but in that case it seems like the other links could just be whacked into the story. If I had ever used Skype, I would have stopped using it when Micro$haft bought it. Disabling the current version to force Skype users to use the newer version.Kinda reminds me of all of the forced Win 10 installs. I consider a Win 10 (or anything else) install forced when it installs first and only then gives you the option to decline.

Windows 7 and 8 users should have been asked first, and if they declined, that should have been that.no more nagging, and trickery to get it installed! It wouldn't sur.

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Never give up. 'We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated. Which is the orderly upgrade of software to newer versions followed later by deprecation of the older versions? Now in cases where the software (or enabling service) is paid, I can see complaining if the 'later' comes sooner than is reasonable. Legacy software incurs support costs, at some point it's reasonable for a company to spend finite engineering resources building new things. It's a balance thing, and nothing suggests that any of these companies are going to alienate too many customers by askin.

Which is the orderly upgrade of software to newer versions followed later by deprecation of the older versions? The 'stunt' is failure to support the latest operating system available for a particular device. If WhatsApp requires a new operating system, and your phone requires an old one, then continuing to run WhatsApp costs $100 or more to replace your phone with one that can run a new operating system, plus whatever it costs in your area to recycle your old phone in compliance with applicable e-waste regulations. Hardware follows the same rules - it's announced, it's supported, then it's deprecated in an orderly fashion. Complain if it's done too fast, especially in the Android space where OEMs abandon phones willy-nilly, but it's still got to happen. All told at some margin the $100 for you to replace an ancient phone with one that can run a modern operating system is cheaper than the engineering resources required to support, validate and certify it indefinitely. Maybe that comes after 3 years, maybe 5, but logica.

Windows XP only supports SHA1 for TLS - pretty much useless for the modern secure web (SHA1 is deprecated and it's against policy to even issue new certs with it). WhatsApp and Skype also operate servers, and likely don't want to support every protocol baked into their older software versions. I get that you think that your old machine with an old OS should work, but that doesn't consider that there are other parties required to support it, at least for anything server-based. You can operate forever just fin. You seem not to get it. And likely don't want to support every protocol baked into their older software versions.

That would cost basically nothing. You just keep the older libraries in the package, facepalm. Anyway: I explain it again. 31th of december 2016, WhatsApp works perfectly.

But it gives me messages since 1st of October, that it will stop working in january 2017. About 10th of January it stopped working. No Os change on my Phone, no Software change on my phone. I did not do an OS upgrade. I did not chan. Sorry, the Skype and WhatsApp upgrades/forced upgrades have nothing to do with keys or credentials.

And yes, worst case I would prefer to keep it 'unsecure'. Obviously I communicate nothing via WhatsApp or Skype that needs protection. For stuff like that I always use a secure way. And as my friends on WhatsApp or Skype are not in the child porn business all the pictures we exchange are ok and no one cares if they 'leak'. Skype needs the server only for initiating the connection. As soon as a call is running i. Facepalm, for one who claims to be in that business.

The OS is not insecure. WhatsApp can compile their App for any older OS version by simply selecting the right check boxes in the IDE or giving the right command line options.

It is a fucking chat client. There is nothing in new OS versions that is required to make it work or gives a good reason that it does no longer work/can be compiled for old OS versions.

Your regression testing argument makes no sense. Do your regression tests suddenly not compil.

No it does not. It is simply a harassment of the provider of the App. You can not install a key logger on iOS or macOS.

And if you had a key logger you still would need access to stuff like the users name etc. Which is stored in the Apps private storage. Even with a hackable system like many Android versions it is extremely difficult to capture the credentials of a user using Skype or WhatsApp. Probably you have not the history of my posts. So I rephrase: WhatsApp started to give a message around mid 2016 on.

The stunt was: WhatsApp (the app on my phone) suddenly warned me 'it will stop working' after January 1st of 2017. There was no upgrade or incompatibility involved. Just like this Skype stunt.

They simply 'stop working' in a few days, because the server stops routing through calls for old versions. In the WhatsApp case, they said: download and install the new version. But the new version required a newer iOS. Switching to the web based WhatsApp or Desktop version did not work either: because the 'linking' of t.

Look everyone knows it is only a matter of time before M$ kills skype on Windows 7 to force people to the probe. That's what upsets them, they have become accustomed to M$'s behaviour, expect it and are becoming annoyed when they see it coming even when it couple of years down track. They know M$'s modus operandi and regardless to the bullshit press releases M$ puts out, the react the the reality underlying it.

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So as M$ bought skype, I was done with it, I know the inevitable consequence, they are a crappy c. Discord is a disaster. It's a hipster version of IRC. The current nodejs/javascript takeover of desktop applications is becoming a serious problem.

These 'native' clients don't integrate with the host system's UI, take gobs of ram for what they do, and are ugly as sin. In discord's case, the UI stack is gpu accelerated, which causes performance problems on marginal gpus (remember, this is just meant to be a chat program). Now I've got three different applications imposing custom skins (hw monitor, steam. I can not say anything regarding Signal. I frankly forgot about it, but reading now on Wikipedia it looks promising. Especially encrypted SMS/MMS. I wonder how that works.

Regarding the programs I mentioned: Telegram offers cost free unlimited storage (I don't use it intensive enough to see how good it works when offline) and strong encryption. Disadvantage: I don't know/did not check where the servers are.

Discord: strength is chat groups and like TeamSpeak voice chat in groups especially suited for games. Well, what's wrong with Hangouts? For me, off the top of my head: - Being able to have phone-in numbers in multiple countries. No world subscription where I can call landlines and some mobiles at no additional cost. Requirement of existing mobile number - No real desktop app that is relatively lightweight (having to install Chrome and running four executables in the background doesn't count, Skype only uses ash.tips on my Windows machine right now.

I have frequent problems with presence information when usi. I can still use IRC, SIP, Email etc from any ancient device. It's not that simple.

For example, many of the people I need to communicate with don't and won't use IRC, but they'll use Skype. Now Skype is turning into trash.

So should I try to convert all of them to IRC? No way, they just won't do it. It may better/faster/cooler/whatever, but the issue is that everyone they know is using Skype. Why would they switch away to a service that their friends and family aren't using? It's the same problem for people who want to use something other than Facebook- everyone is alr. Basically we are coming to a point where you have to login online to use a computer at all, you have no control over the applications, including how it updates, even patch notes are going by the wayside.

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Photoshop is no longer available standalone. There will never be a stop to the changes, because churn like that makes money. Be prepared for a future where you are constantly nudged to buy things, in every interaction you have. We have entered a really shitty era for personal computing. Basically we are coming to a point where you have to login online to use a computer at all How will that be enforced? Why can't people just switch to free software?

For example, instead of an iPad or a tablet or laptop running Windows 10 Cloud, buy a device running GNU/Linux or Android. Or instead of an iPhone, buy an Android phone and install the F-Droid store. Or instead of a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One, build a PC with SteamOS. What computing device class has no practical device that allows at least sideloading free software, if not replacing the operating system entirely with one that respects.