<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Skype's invitation to upgrade to their latest version is interesting! Based on the new features, I am suspecting that Skype is finally shifting the data into the cloud (hitherto stored on and fragmented across your computers), as I said for years they must do. The following features (requiring the new Skype client software) suggest this new cloud architecture:<br>
<br>• View your group chats and chat history across multiple devices.<br>• Sync all messages across devices.<br>• Group notification settings on one device will roam across all your devices.<br> <br>As for the following item:<br>
<br>• Send and receive instant messages when your contacts are offline.<br> <br>It's about time for this feature!!! As my friends all know, this has plagued me for years. (Though not recently anymore, since I simply abandoned Skype for such purposes.) Practically every other system was free of this problem. (Gmail's text chat works great, by the way.)<br>
<font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"> </div><br>Hartmut Sager<br></font></span><br></div>
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