Skype

8.68.0.96

8.68.0.96

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Used to be great until Microsoft got their hands on it! Now, this latest version is so bad they can't even get a reliable DMG to mount! Anyone AWAKE at Microsoft?

Too painful with microsoft logins.Jumping through hoops. Now use whatsapp and messenger for free.

skype was once a very good application, but since years microsoft works very hard on degrading it. there are weekly upgrades but never a visible change, the experience is terrible. things are not working. removed contacts are still visible. you cant reliably see your contacts status. etc etc. it is really a shame! microsoft should fire the complete skype team without notice!

It's rubbish. Has been since MS bought it. Glory days were when Skype 2.8 was the de facto app to use - great GUI and UX, small memory and screen footprint. MS contribution over the years has made Skype laughable product that is useless. So many better alternatives out there. So-called 'supporters' of Skype probably work for MS! ZERO stars if I could - it's rubbish!

I don't understand why MacUpdate doesn't allow Zoom to be listed as Similar Software, which it is. :(

Skype used to be the only game in town, and a wonderful thing. But it not only seems it’s not improving (sometimes even seems to be getting worse), there are better such apps. I’ve been using Zoom for over a year, and am much happier. I need group meetings for my work, so I have a paid account with Zoom, but even the free version is probably adequate for many.

The problem is likely me. I am a senior and could not get this to work. I could see the other person but he could only see my "desk top screen". Hit every icon on the screen but no change. finally just used Face time on phone. Maybe EASY for GEEKS but not for normal people. Dave

The link downloads Skype 3.34. Someone messed up again. Too bad we can't rate MacUpdate. One and half stars at best here.

It happens too often here..Don't know who to blame: The System Requirements are WRONG (again)!! It is not OS X 10. 9 and above, but it is OS X 10.10 and above.........

Skype 8 no longer works under Mac OS 10.14 Mojave. This is a known issue according to Skype's support site.

Skype has many issues, but if you want to talk to someone using Windows or an Android phone, Skype is the only game in town. Problematic though it may be, it deserves more than one or two stars.

Infected with the Osx.Trojan.AppleJeus virus! Thanks MacUpdate!

I need Skype unfortunately to do my job. The user interface is SO BAD. It's unusable. I could luckily downgraded to version 7.59 that is way better. MS when will you fix this sh%t

It just works now and the one star rating is no longer, if it ever was, a fair assessment of the product.

I have downgraded to the older Skype version.

The latest interface is so poorly conceived, I find the app unusable in its current form.

In recent years I find, an understanding of effective human computer interface design principles has been cast aside by many corporate app developers. The apps seem to reflect more marketing departments' ill conceived notions than good practical design. Shame really. Skype (Microsoft) is among the worst offenders to date.

In fact, in a period long since passed - before Microsoft acquired the product - the Skype user interface was pretty good and certainly very useable. Whatever happened??

OMG - what an utterly disgusting and counter-intuitive UI this software has. We just finished a Skype conference and all we were trying to do was clear the screen of cruft to maximize the screen sharing space but everything was so counter-intuitive we just couldn't figure anything out. You'd click on one icon and an unexpected popup window would appear and none of us could figure out how to close it. Same thing with the huge toolbar across the top. All of us in the room (all engineers) were cursing at how awful Skype was. Before even trying to fix it, they should literally fire everybody at Microsoft who worked on it because they have proven beyond all doubt they are incapable of making a GUI usable by normal humans. This software is a complete cluster fuq...

Still one of my fav apps for video calling. Thanks to recent updates, the UI is now cleaner but some features have become very unstable. Does anyone know of another app that can auto answer calls?

Version 8 blows: masses of white space eating up screen real estate, every message has a distracting smily on it, only a single window, lost Away status, can’t shift-click to select multiple contacts, removing contact is buried in their profile, no setting for saving chat history, settings like view Skype contacts instead of All contacts aren’t sticky, date format doesn’t follow system preferences, emoji picker plays awful tunes, AppleScript support removed, can’t copy text out of a quoted message, no automatic spelling correction, and updates are now compulsory.

This new Interface is crap. You can no longer use Command > W to close JUST the window you're chatting in, leaving the basic App open... ick<

Also, my "You are on the latest Version of Skype," is 8.25.0.5 and it won't automatically D/L 8.26.0.70 from within the App.

The added a fuqqing menu bar icon that can't seem to be removed. WHYYYYY do you clog up the menu bar after you already appropriate so much screen real estate?? WHYYY? I really can't stand what MS does to good programs.

where is older version of skype to download

I actually like the new Skype and it works fine for me. I would rather use FaceTime over Skype, but for things that I have to do at work, I have to use Skype. The new dark mode is really nice as well.

This piece of software has become a nightmare to use. Its definitely not user friendly, and its been well and truly overtaken by better chat apps. They seem to have shot themselves in both feet with their bloated and confusing updates.

Once this was a 5-star app, universally loved and used by millions over the world. I recall Skye 2.x that was rock-solid, well-designed GUI and UX, small footprint on screen and memory. These days it is bloated dysfunctional 0-star garbage destroyed by M$. ***no-one*** believes the 5-star 'reviews' here - desperate M$ employees posting positive reviews to keep the ratings in positive territory.
Looking for alternatives? WhatsApp, Viber, are two to consider, plenty of other chat/video apps out there - check them out but you can leave Skye behind forever.

I'm on Mac 10.9.5. When I opened Skype, it said I could not login because my version is not update. I clicked on update Skype, it downloaded a newer version. When I opened Skype again, it said I cannot use the update version, because it requires Mac 10.10. Crap.

Skype has a big security flaw that could let an attacker gain control of Mac, Windows, and Linux computers. What’s worse is that Microsoft isn’t planning on fixing the flaw, at least for now, because it amounts to rewriting the entire app update installer.That means the auto-updater system in Skype is a security risk should anyone decide they want to exploit it, and it’ll stay that way until the rewritten version is released—and users install it.

I have never had any serious problem with Skype from day one it first appeared in (2000?). Except a small problem when picture of me doesn't show on the other end. This happens almost every time. Very annoying. But what are the alternatives? all of them come and go. Doesn't seems to be any.

What did they do with this application !? You can not even close the window because it closes the entire program. Who designed it? Do they have no idea how applications work on a Mac?

Utter rubbish. Thank heaven I kept version 7 handy to roll back.

I don't know about the password problems that some people are mentioning, but from my point of view Microsoft has simply destroyed a once-decent interface and removed all the customisation features that I used to like. Skype stands out as being the one piece of software whose interface has gone from good to awful, getting progressively worse over time with each revamp. Early versions were great. Then social media and adverts got integrated, which I hated, but the interface was still passable. But now they've thrown away the traditional interface completely (so there's nothing left that looks or works like macOS), they've removed ALL the customisable features that I cared about (like the ability to use custom sounds etc.), they'd dumbed down the whole interface to such a degree that there's essentially nothing left, and the result is a complete disaster. I've reverted to what they now call 'Classic Skype', and I shall stick with that version until it no longer works. And if they haven't done a U-turn on the terrible interface by then, I'll simply cease using it. After all, there's FaceTime as an acceptable alternative, at least with fellow Apple owners.

Last version of the Skype 7 branch before things went horribly wrong with the UI can be found here (7.59.37): https://filehippo.com/mac/download_skype_for_mac/download/4da7d2f760741078f850fbd65b10c884012454601df312fd7da32ded5a8ad7e5/

Thankfully, this version also does not (yet) nag you with requests to autoupdate to version 8.

this is great #1 app for video calls

This version of Skype is the worst 'upgrade' I have ever seen.

Had to uninstall after trying it and go back to version 7. Why it is so confusing? I needed to add a person during a conversation and it was a mess. The UI is a mess. I cannot understand what is the point of this new version.