Getting the Business from Skype

For curiosity's sake, I grabbed a copy of Skype's Business Edition, for I wanted to see how it differed from Skype's Non-Business edition.  Judging by the layout and design of the non-business edition, it must be known as the 14-year-old or Kiddie Chatter edition.

How did it go with the Business Edition?

F A I L

That's kind-of it, really.

Dear Skype.  

I am uninstalling your 'business' edition today.  I have some questions, as well.

1) Unless I work for Facebook, do you think a Facebook add-in is appropriate for an edition targeted at Business?

2) I do not look at the phone when I'm in a conference; I look at other things, like what I'm working on.  Skype 5.1's 'Compact' View is still ridiculously large; please look to rendering it as unobtrusive as the phone we're trying to replace, so that its presence indicator can stay off to one side.

3) Please tell me which subscription you think I need to buy to get rid of further advertisements.  No, really:  You tell me what the threshold is, and I'll tell you whether I'm paying you or someone else.

At this point in time, I'm unable to properly discern a difference between this 5.1 business edition and that which I may have just installed on my niece's computer at home.  If there's been potentially a mix-up, and you do have a business edition that is at all different from the one targeted at the teen audience, please accept my apologies and pass it along.  I would like to upgrade if a better version exists.

I mean, honestly :  I admit I may not 'get' the value of Facebook and Twitter and them, but there's a time and place for it.  I really feel recreational surfing and downtime are one in the same, and required; but these should be separate from our work tools, so that we can choose when and how to integrate them into our daily routine;  having the games and toys added in with our tools allows the games and toys to bug us , and that's a little backward.

And yeah, I just installed the 5.1 edition marketed to kids and surfers.  It's the very same.  Is this a bait-and-switch, or did they just mix up the versions?  If there's a business-targeted version, sign me up.  This ain't it.