Looks Like Microsoft is Killing the UWP Version of Skype Too
- Paul Thurrott
- Mar 18, 2020
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It looks like Microsoft is killing its Skype for Windows 10 app and will replace it with the standard desktop Skype app instead.
There’s no official word of the change—which appears to mimic what Microsoft’s doing with OneNote—but it was first spotted by the Italian tech blog Aggiornamenti Lumia, which tweeted that the Skype Preview App has suddenly been replaced with the standard desktop Skype app in the Microsoft Store.
“[Microsoft] obliterated every good thing the UWP [app] still had,” one Twitter user commented on the changes. “No more People app integration. No more sync with Outlook. No more automatic [Microsoft account] sign-in. No more app pausing/working in [the] background. No more good-looking title bar.”
Also missing: inline replies in notifications and Share integration. But I’m not sure these missing features mean much, as many could return as the desktop app is improved.
As you may know, Microsoft maintains multiple Skype clients, and Windows 10 users typically use the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app version that ships with that operating system. But Microsoft has been testing a Preview version in the Microsoft Store that represents the next major evolution of the client. To date, the Skype Preview apps had been based on UWP, but Microsoft is no longer backing that as its desktop app platform of the future. So the backstepping from UWP continues, as expected.
Conversation 51 comments
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r2d22
<blockquote><em><a href="#532099">In reply to nerocui:</a></em></blockquote><p>also android and ios are angular and not native?</p>
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r2d22
<blockquote><em><a href="#532156">In reply to jupast:</a></em></blockquote><p>whatsapp it's the worst, half client (phone only), that I ever saw … and please don't start with whatsapp web, that without YOUR phone connected to internet doesn't work</p>
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r2d22
<blockquote><em><a href="#532145">In reply to truerock2:</a></em></blockquote><p>Skype was developed by Skype, than MS bought it</p><p><br></p><p>I always preferred MSN messenger, far ahead as features and UI</p>
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r2d22
<blockquote><em><a href="#532146">In reply to RM:</a></em></blockquote><p>let's ask Nadella</p>
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r2d22
<blockquote><em><a href="#532290">In reply to paul-thurrott:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>"Which is a web app. Which will run great on Windows 10X."</p><p><br></p><p>this is misleading, it's not because it's a web app runs great on windows 10x, it's just windows 10x can run any web app… but a native UWP would run much better (faster, lighter, less resources and full access to OS api like notifications ecc…)</p>
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hansolo
<blockquote><em><a href="#532572">In reply to paul-thurrott:</a></em></blockquote><p>funny that you talk about Flutter that support ios and android, but you don't mention Xamarin.Forms that supports ios, android and UWP (with all devices and platforms supported by UWP)</p>
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hansolo
<blockquote><em><a href="#532146">In reply to RM:</a></em></blockquote><p> Meanwhile the Xbox app is finally ditching electron for UWP</p><p><br></p>
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r2d22
<p>Some more objective details:</p><p><br></p><p>"Skype replaced its "UWP" app with Electron, but honestly, it was barely UWP already. It had a Win32 component and it used a web framework for the UI. Almost nothing about it was native. The original Skype uwp app was great, and it's been downhill ever since they switched to web."</p><p><br></p><p>source: twitter.com/kid_jenius/status/1240292862274596865</p>
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hansolo
<p> Meanwhile the Xbox app is finally ditching electron for UWP</p><p><br></p>