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Originally posted by vaccination
You spread such bollocks djdannyp.

It's a shit decision and one that can not be backed up no matter how much fanboyism you pull out of your arse. The removal of single sided webcam conversations and the inclusion of forced video chat is in no way a step forward and not something that can be brushed away or justified with a callous "get used to it" attitude.

I think you'll find "the best thing you can do" is to register a complaint with Microsoft, and hope that by release this feature has been re-added into the product. If not, then your best option is not to simply upgrade - as djdannyp will tell you, spouting his usual "you must always upgrade to the latest version!!!1111!!!!11" nonsense - but rather to remain on 9.0, or better yet 8.5 which are both far superior clients currently.

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Think what you want, but encouraging people to stick with old versions just ends up causing problems.  My "get used to it" attitude is a realistic one.  You can complain all you like and do whatever you want, but it won't change, so getting used to it is the best thing to do.

It's nothing to do with "fanboyism", I'd be saying the same thing whether I used/liked the product or not.

I'm not spreading any bollocks, you should always upgrade to the latest versions of everything and encouraging people to perform "hacks" and whatever in order to stay on older versions can cause other problems which are totally unnecessary.

The reason I say these things is because the same things happen every year.  As I've posted elsewhere, anything changed in a Microsoft product is automatically "shit, I want the old one that was SOOOO superiod", whereas anything new in an Apple product is always "OMG, new features are so cool"......there's no parity.

Is your memory so short that you can't remember just as many people complaining about changing from WLM 8.5 to WLM 2009?  Moaning how crap it is an saying they can never use it......those same people are the ones now singing its praises and slagging off the new one.....and you can guarantee that the same people will be doing exactly the same thing in a couple of years time.

@DrPizza, you can only have one video-call at a time....so disabling your camera doesn't disable it for all your contacts, it just disables it for whichever one you're video calling with at that moment.

At the end of the day, I'm just encouraging people to do the sensible thing, as we should be doing.  What you do personally is your own choice, but you shouldn't be advising other people to do it