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Thursday, June 16, 2005

Skype 1.3 for windows - Spamcredible!

Download Skype for Windows

Sucktastic.

The new version of Skype is hard-coded to be a minimum of about 300 pixels wide, and has stupid ads hogging up the space for voicemail and other pointless services I don't need. It still has the real-estate gobbling redundant icons (I think I will call them eye-cons) and actually ads more crap.

Look. Skype usually works. Design the UI like you've done the connections, and you'll find a simple, sleek setup with minimal crap really is what people want. I want a contact list, a presence indicator and a chat text window. My boss wants a voice chat. I'm stuck with it, but I hope like hell they pull 1.3 out of their ass and make it Better instead of worse.

I know they're gonna stuff ads onto it now.

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