


Windows 10, released in July 2015, featured a revamped Universal Windows Platform (UWP), based on Windows 8 but adapted so that application run in windows, and across multiple devices including phone, tablet, Xbox and desktop Windows.Īt this point Skype seemed to be retreating from the UWP. "This is our big step forward together with Microsoft to introduce a completely new Skype experience, which is designed to be always on, immersive, effortless and fun to use," said then Skype exec Mark Gillett at the time. When Microsoft launched Windows 8 in October 2012, complete with a new touch-friendly app environment, it included a new Skype application rebuilt for the new "modern" platform. The Skype story on Microsoft's reinvented Windows platform is anything but smooth.
