Another reason to avoid Windows 8 then. they used to do the same with MSN messenger constantly running in the background all the time and you manually having to keep log out to stop being pestered all day when trying to work
Skype for Windows 8 is coming: Always on, always in your contacts
Microsoft has dropped the veil on the next version of Skype a few days before it launches on Thursday with Windows 8. The video chat service has been reworked to be always-on and compatible with the live tiles and asymmetric grid that are at the core of the new user interface. Skype for Windows 8 will be "immersive and …
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Monday 22nd October 2012 16:20 GMT Graham Marsden
Great!
You can spend *ALL DAY* being pestered by people who want an *INSTANT* response from you!
No more them sending an e-mail and having to *wait* for you to reply! No, now they just go on Skype and keep hassling you until you reply just to get them to SHUT UP!
Who could fail to love such a setup???
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Tuesday 23rd October 2012 13:18 GMT Mark .
Re: Have they spoken to the phone companies?
"are less popular than symbian"
That would mean, one of the most popular smartphone platforms ever, then. (Symbian was number one platform until 2011 when Android became number one, and outsold Apple until it was replaced by WP. Even now, one year later, with hardly any new models, poor or no distribution in many countries, and zero marketing, Symbian is selling per quarter what Apple sold in the first full six months of their iphone, despite vast amounts of media hype. And embarrassingly for MS, it's also still selling more than WP.)
Yes, WP8 will no doubt be less popular than Symbian was, but so has pretty much everything except Android.
Fewer apps than the Baggage engine sounds like the original iphone (which couldn't even run apps). Indeed: expensive, less popular than Symbian, no apps, pretty much describes the first iphone :)
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Tuesday 23rd October 2012 13:21 GMT Mark .
Re: Linux....
So am I, but don't worry - I'm sure that the likes of Ubuntu will be adding this feature too, Unity-style.
(Yes, I appreciate the advantage of Linux that you can install a distribution that fits your needs or preferences. But then, it's a lot easier to untick the "Always on" option in Windows Skype, than to install a whole new OS...)
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Monday 22nd October 2012 20:43 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: They can turn it off.
Most of the time I just read these out of amusement but occasionally you read something that proves Darwinism doesn't work.
So because it's MS the camera's going to be on... Well as a parent and user of Mac's / Windows plus a variety consoles the biggest problem is not the excellent parental controls Microsoft, Apple, Sony etc put into their devices but the parents that don't bother using them.
If your young Tarquin does view some smut or gets caught online as the camera is live and they have some suspect contacts on IM ask yourself why you didn't use the parental controls before you start blaming the makers of the software.
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Tuesday 23rd October 2012 07:58 GMT Jaruzel
Re: Can you kill it
I'm sure you'll be able to put the name of the EXE in the restricted applications setting in Group Policy. I also reckon that someone will knock up a custom ADMX template to allow you to control Skype centrally.
However... MS already have a corporate conferencing system - it's called Lync Server. Does everything Skype does, plus it integrates into Office/Sharepoint/Active-Directory.
But then this new Skype is for Windows 8, which we all know will never ever be rolled out in offices.
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Tuesday 23rd October 2012 00:42 GMT Jan Hargreaves
You may be paying for 30 Mbps but what are you actually getting?
That said, I wholeheartedly agree. Crappy voice quality like talking through wall socks, stuttering video like a 10 year old camera phone, and why is it that Skype wants to use all of my bandwidth when not on a video call, while my SIP only needs 64 kbps. Go figure. Have subsequently configured my router to only allow skype 200 kbps. Personally I never run the piece of crap... but other people in the house.....
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Tuesday 23rd October 2012 23:29 GMT Paul 129
Ooooo!
I was wondering what the killer app for win 8 would be. The kiddies will be demanding this.
Sorry you lot, but we are not the target market for this. You pesty kids are.
"Daaaddd! All my friends are on skype.....[followed by all the evidence that you just don't love your kids enough.]"
I HATE MS! Devious B@$tards!