>>>Alas, you are right. As soon as I installed the updated version of Skype I could not close it and was getting a very low-level error message. I restarted my computer and then the error - at least for now - is gone. What I don't like about MS is that I know they will be snooping on everything I do on Skype. Hopefully they won't be able to get into my Outlook and get all contacts and start offering me to talk to them on Skype.
>>>Strangely though, the new version of Skype showed contacts that I have deleted long time ago and even forgot about them. Apparently delete means "hide" :)
>>(shrug) it's just like DBF files...
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>I didn't know that Skype was developed with VFP 3 :)

Along the same lines. Developed by anyone but Microsoft, bought and yoked into the money making machine. Now their histories diverge wildly. While VFP was mostly used as source of technology and hostage developers, Skype was used for its hostage users, while the technology was gradually ditched and replaced with orwellian version of its opposite: from the best p2p chatter out there into a centralized monster which keeps losing features but gaining your data.