Skype can now record your 'special moments' in front of the computer Call recording is coming to the consumer version of Skype, although users of the Windows 10 UWP incarnation will have a bit longer to wait. Business users have long had the ability to record video and audio calls, but the great unwashed have had to resort to a variety of third-party apps with varying degrees of effectiveness …
If by blew it you mean that they completely failed with all their effort in abandoning WebTV, yes. At some point in 1996 a Microsoft beancounter was overheard... "What? TV and a computer, kill the project! Net... Flicks... absurd!"
Then, even worse, when you consider that that decision also lost the future creator of Android OS... Smile.
It almost seems made up on just how bad at futuring MS is. But when you steal things, you don't have the vision to create them.
But the lack of Audio-only recording is a WTF moment. It says it all about how Microsoft don't think things through. Overall I would expect the only people really celebrating are fux like this:
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-43114471
"The Register has contacted Microsoft to learn what security measures are in place for the cloud-based recordings and will update if a response is forthcoming. ®"
Simple. It is always recording vid + audio and sends this to Redmond for indexing. Soon, skype will start at boot time, and no, sadly, there's no option to prevent this.
Then, there's an optional payed for service for removing embarrassing vids ...
1. You hit record, everyone gets notified, everyone has to answer yes, recording starts?
2. You hit record, everyone gets notified, recording starts there and then, if they don't like it they hang up?
Sounds like the second one meaning Microsoft Don't Get Privacy (again).
Skype for business announces it on the screen and plays a tone but does NOT require all participants to ok the recording.
I’d assume regular Skype will follow the same model.
It’s actually quite useful on business machines as you can setup a meeting with no one else on it, share your screen and record a tutorial without any additional software.
The Register has contacted Microsoft to learn what security measures are in place for the cloud-based recordings and will update if a response is forthcoming.
Don't hold yer breath! But were there to be a response it would either be:
1) All user's "special moments" will be kept with the highest level of security and privacy Microsoft can provide.
2) All user's "special moments" will be mined for location, and product information, and can and will be sold to the highest (and probably second highest) bidder, verbatim, at our sole discretion.
Answer 1) will eminate from the marketdroids, and will be a complete fabrication. (C'mon, "highest level of security and privacy"? From Microsoft??? Shirley, you jest!) Answer 2 will be the truth, and will never see the light of day unless leaked from an internal Microsoft memo.
According to Ars Technica, the new Skype apps for all platforms will be built with HTML5 and JavaScript. Skype users can look forward to the snappy performance and low resource overhead that are the hallmarks of running interpreted code in a container.
On the plus side, the pokey and bloated new apps will supposedly focus on features that people actually want to use, rather than trying to be a crappy Snapchat / Instagram ripoff.
So, yay.
> look forward to the snappy performance and low resource overhead that are the hallmarks of running interpreted code in a container.
To be fair, there isn't much that videoconferencing applications have to do themselves these days, as video+audio capture and network peering is all done in native code via Web APIs. The application itself basically takes care of glueing the APIs to the relevant user interface controls.
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