At first I was really impressed with the beta. Doug has done a great job to get the beta scripts to the point that they are at. However, I decided to get rid of the beta for one simple reason. They got rid of the SkypeMe mode. This may not be a big deal to most of you, but I used to use that mode quite a bit, and I found that I was missing it. I really did like most of the other changes, but that was the one thing that made me return to 3.8. I've already left feedback in several places to express my views on this subject.
---------- Earle Msn: peterson_33 at sympatico.ca skype and twitter: rowdyamerican ----- Original Message ----- From: "jim grimsby Jr." <[email protected]> To: "'a list for discussing skype and its use with screen access software.'" <skypeenglish at emissives.com> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 9:01 AM Subject: [Skypeenglish] FW: 10 days later... Well here is an interesting article. of course nothing said that helps you and me. That is why we have Mr. Doug lee and Mr. airing smith from gw micro. Keep up the great work guys. Feed: Skype Blogs Posted on: Saturday, June 28, 2008 2:42 AM Author: Mike Bartlett Subject: 10 days later... Hello again! It's been 10 days since we launched the first Beta of Skype 4.0 for Windows, so I thought it would be a good idea to reflect a little and to respond to some of the feedback we've received. Firstly, I'd like to thank everyone who has given us their thoughts via our feedback site, on this and our other blogs, but also via the various feedback mechanisms we introduced for this Beta. It always amazes me how many people are so passionate about Skype and that's what makes it so enjoyable to get up and come to work every morning (apart from last Thursday - boy, did my head hurt). We've had very different reactions to Beta 1, in particular the big change we made of having Skype in a larger window. One of the primary reasons for doing this was that we found an overwhelming majority of people had trouble working with multiple windows and were using Skype mainly to make calls and video calls, especially amongst those new to Skype. We've had some very positive feedback from a lot of people on the new way of working, and that's encouraging as it seems we're starting to solve the problems that we set out to solve. However, it's very understandable some of you used to using Skype on a regualar basis have been a bit frustrated about not being able to work with Skype the way they are used to. We always planned to address our more advanced users in a second beta, and I just wanted to say - don't worry -- we will address the need to have Skype take up less room on the screen with a feature that allows you to reduce the size - we call it compact mode. We hope to get it out towards the end of the summer with our second beta release. Other people have also commented on being able to resize video. There are a few things you can do here in Beta 1. Firstly, in the single window, you can resize both your own video and the video of the other person you are talking to. If you hover over the bottom left corner of the video feeds, you will find this functionality. What you can also do is pop out the video window using this button -> pop-up.gif <http://share.skype.com/sites/en/pop-up.gif> , which you'll see at the top right hand corner of your screen, to the right of the "+ Add people" button. Which, will mean, if you're on a video call, you'll see something like this: video window.jpg <http://share.skype.com/sites/en/video%20window.jpg> We will make further improvements to this with Beta 2. Finally, a lot of people have asked about a Mac version. Both the Mac and Linux teams here at Skype are working closely with us on this Beta. They are reading all of this feedback and will be picking out the truly great bits and putting them into their respective versions. So you can certainly expect to see something on Mac after summer. Again, thank you for your passion and you enthusiasm - and hopefully you are enjoying Skype 4.0 Beta 1. Speak to you again soon. Mike Bartlett Director of Product Management, Skype for Windows <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ShareSkypeEn/~4/321693189> View <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ShareSkypeEn/~3/321693189/10_days_later.html> article... Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To access tutorials and other goodies go to http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list Skypeenglish at emissives.com http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com
