Skype is broken (someone should do something)

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The skype-microsoft links are clearly progressing well as skype now has a habit of occasionally silently crashing and not telling me about it until I try to message or call someone and can't. Skype is the definition of something you want to run in the background and not get in the way but I think that silent crashing is maybe taking things too far.

I'm a heavy user so I have skype on for five long work days each week, and often at weekends too. I have (or had, more on that later in this rant) about 100 contacts. Skype is pretty much mission critical for me - it's how I join conference calls, how I catch up with my team.

So every week or so I get a "crashed skype" moment when I try to send and IM and just get the twisting tiny circle of doom.

The (not always effective) reset process is:

"Quit Skype or use Windows Task Manager to kill any Skype.exe process. Go to Windows Start and in the Search/Run box type %appdata% and then press Enter or click the OK button. The Windows File Explorer will pop up. There locate a folder named “Skype”. Rename this folder to something different, e.g. Skype_old.

If you are on the latest Skype 6.5/6.6/6.7 version, then do also this:

Go to Windows Start and in the Search/Run box type %temp%\skype and then press Enter or click the OK button. Delete the DbTemp folder."

Anyway, what I'm saying is if you can't get through to me on skype, or I don't appear to be a contact any more, it's nothing personal and I still love you :-)  Just add me again and we'll talk.

(and it is also why I am late for the meeting)