Oh, that's lovely
Remind me to download Adblock VoIP+ from the Microsoft Win10 Metro Skype App Store.
Cybercrooks have been caught running booby-trapped ads on Skype to redirect users towards an Angler exploit kit trap. The tactic, part of a broader malvertising campaign, shows that users can be exposed to malicious ads pushing ransomware and other crud without even using a browser-based app, the most common exploit route. …
When eBay bought Skype the quality of SW went downhill.
MS. OTH totally made it unusable on many laptops (100% CPU. Why? Something to do with not being able to disable camera? I don't know.)
The UI has got worse. Ironically the Linux version is now better than Windows Desktop version, for a certain definition of better.
The adverts in a product that for years never had adverts, for a company the size of MS that makes so much from bought products is OBSCENE GREED and was doomed to server malware. It will again. That's why I have noscript in the browser, it's only incidental that it blocks adverts.
MS have totally lost the plot.
Me </hands up>
Lately I have been annoying people with my Welsh Encoded Roman numbering system. It tends to keep them quiet as they try to work out why the Roman numerals for five (V) have been replaced by IW and X has been replaced by WI.
LL tends to be a bone of contention though because is it two Ls or L+1?
It's great fun. But seriously, I do release my software versions using the Welsh alphabet because, well, why not? Most of my users have come to like it which does surprise me somewhat.
edit: I also seem to have become somewhat unemployable of late. I can't imagine why...