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RE: RE: RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype?
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Originally posted by Diceman2037
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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Originally posted by Diceman2037
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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Originally posted by elektra
why dey do dis tough. i dnt wnt to call the peeps on skyper i wont to type to dem. with keyboar.d?Q!!!
You are able to type to them in Skype too.

why would he use inferior software

Guaranteed there will be a hack to make WLM work still.
Why? I dunno, that was not his question/remark...

Inferior? Skype had (and has) far better video quality and is far more stablethan WLM ever had and was.

Wrong on both counts,  Skype is far more code bloated which leads to far more potential problems, one of them being the fact it uses a permanently gpu accelerated UI which makes it an annoyance to leave running in the background while loading up a game
No, not wrong.
1) Reread his post. He did not ask nor made a remark about why he would or must use inferiour software. That was your remark. I simply answered that he can type with the keyboard in Skype too _without_ any judgement about the quality of the software (being it WLM or Skype).

2) about inferiour: I know d* well what it means and what the dictionaries say. Two programs aimed at two different things can't be compared as inferior/superior. That's like comparing an apple with a banana, hence:
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
It is not because you don't like certain aspects of a software that it is inferior.
Its inferior because it is a VOIP app with text chat hacked in at the last moment.
Yeah, well, then WLM is inferior because it is a text based IM with video hacked in at the last moment.... :rolleyes:

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Originally posted by Diceman2037
Its [sic: skype] also based around the social media philosophy which many of us refused to upgrade to WLM 2011 just to avoid it.
WLM is all about the social media philosphy too, even long before the words "social media" became the buzzwords of these modern times.
Even so, having all kinds of "social" networks integrated into one app does not make it inferior either. Bloated to some, but not necessarily inferior.

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Originally posted by Diceman2037
Microsoft will never achieve it.  They've been progressively destroying their software base for the last 6 years.

There is no possible way for Skype to get to par with WLM by march 15,  luckily the fact that it will still work in china puts up the prospects of a proxy hack, since that means they aren't actually closing the backend, or patching the client to ignore the upgrade and blocking mechanisms.
No argument there...
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Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by Chrono on 11-05-2012 at 08:46 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by prashker on 11-05-2012 at 11:02 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by Chris4 on 11-06-2012 at 07:47 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by Toxn on 11-06-2012 at 08:53 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by Spunky on 11-06-2012 at 09:29 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by Oxy on 11-06-2012 at 11:02 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by absorbation on 11-07-2012 at 02:06 AM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by matty on 11-07-2012 at 02:54 AM
RE: RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by Omar on 11-07-2012 at 03:26 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by Sunshine on 11-07-2012 at 10:45 AM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by Diceman2037 on 11-07-2012 at 06:22 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by Kenji on 11-07-2012 at 08:10 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by matty on 11-07-2012 at 08:45 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by Menthix on 11-07-2012 at 08:59 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by Chrissy on 11-08-2012 at 01:06 AM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by MeEtc on 11-08-2012 at 01:45 AM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by NanoChromatic on 11-08-2012 at 09:27 AM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by Mnjul on 11-08-2012 at 10:47 AM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by foaly on 11-08-2012 at 01:39 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by Nathalie on 11-08-2012 at 05:06 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by CookieRevised on 11-08-2012 at 08:26 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by Chrono on 11-10-2012 at 03:04 AM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by riahc4 on 11-11-2012 at 10:09 AM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by OKI on 11-14-2012 at 03:55 AM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by kittyangel on 11-14-2012 at 06:12 AM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by OKI on 11-14-2012 at 08:16 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by CookieRevised on 11-15-2012 at 09:52 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by traxor on 11-19-2012 at 02:17 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by Tochjo on 11-19-2012 at 03:16 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by Thor on 11-21-2012 at 09:55 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by elektra on 11-22-2012 at 11:06 AM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by CookieRevised on 11-22-2012 at 11:24 AM
RE: RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by Diceman2037 on 01-01-2013 at 08:49 AM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by foaly on 11-22-2012 at 12:54 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by CookieRevised on 01-01-2013 at 04:01 PM
RE: RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by Diceman2037 on 01-10-2013 at 06:40 AM
RE: RE: RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by CookieRevised on 01-14-2013 at 10:50 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by whiz on 01-09-2013 at 01:02 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by Menthix on 01-10-2013 at 01:41 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by L. Coyote on 01-11-2013 at 01:30 AM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by prashker on 01-11-2013 at 03:39 AM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by Stigmata on 01-13-2013 at 03:04 AM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by kezz on 01-13-2013 at 07:55 AM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by MeEtc on 01-15-2013 at 10:15 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by L. Coyote on 01-16-2013 at 01:14 AM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by xho on 02-18-2013 at 04:57 AM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by Chrono on 02-20-2013 at 04:12 PM
RE: Microsoft to retire wlm in favor of Skype? - by CookieRevised on 02-20-2013 at 09:02 PM


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