If it wasn't for Nokia, Microsoft would have even less market share. But, they just don't seem to know what they are doing. Microsoft came late, but still had a shot. Blackberry had it's time in the sun, they didn't accept the changes in the phone space. But it is certainly not 2/5 of most company staffs. Is it just me? Is it a podcaster thing? Is it my desire to impose my expectations upon others? Or am I right - is Skype simply failing to adapt to the multi-device age, and failing to provide the level of service modern users deserve?Ģ/5 of your staff, where you have enthusiests sure. When an app enabled more pain than productivity, when you start to question if it's really worth using it at all anymore, that's a problem.

That it's now February 2014 and that too-long-in-coming revelation still hasn't led to any tangible improvements is terrible. It's great that they're working on it, but if it took Skype until July of 2013 simply to realize we now live in a multi-device world, that's decidedly not great.

As you probably understand this requires all involved Skype clients to be updated to work together so it might take a while until you will see the improved experience on your end. We have identified some shortcomings in multi-device usage like the ones you described and already started working on addressing these.

When I started searching for ways to work around some of the problems, I found this, from July of 2013, on the Skype Community (opens in new tab): We still use it because, annoying as it is, other solutions are just-as if not more annoying. Same for contact requests and even calls coming in - they show up on one device but not the one you're actually using at the time.Įvery day, every show, it's inevitable that someone will wonder out loud how Skype can still have so many issues.

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