Play 60 Questions With AI With Microsoft Bing, ChrEdge, And Skype
Microsoft is expanding the so called AI they added to Bing last week, regardless of how creative some of it's answers have proved to be. One of the major changes for those…
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Tag: Skype
There Can Be Only One! Who Wants To Skype Forever?
You have no choice, resistance is futile! Microsoft is today making it even more obvious that Skype is on it's last legs today, by uniting the two apps behind the scenes. There…
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Personal Skype Is Still Open For Business
It is common knowledge that Skype For Business has just over a year to live, with EOL scheduled for July 31st as companies are migrated to Teams. We also recently...
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Skype adds an AI powered f stop-ish feature
If you liked the look of Sebastian's video on the Podcast, but lack the funds to order the camera he was using that let him adjust the aperture for...
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Like using Skype? Microsoft is going to fix that for you
Once again Microsoft is planning to forcibly move you to the new Skype without giving you an option other than going to the competition. For those on Windows 10, this will mean…
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Podcast #512 – Synology DS1618+, BitFenix 750W PSU, and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #512 - 09/06/18 Join us this week for discussion on Synology DS1618+, BitFenix 750W PSU, and more! You can subscribe...
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Microsoft is slowly reverting Skype back to usefulness
Microsoft seem to have actually listened to some of the feedback they have been receiving from users of the new Skype. Two of the new features, Highlights and Capture will be discontinued…
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You will drink the clown vomit! Skype 8 becomes mandatory in September
If you have been hitting cancel on that pop up inviting you to try the latest version of Skype every time you launch it then there is a bit of bad news. …
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The new Skype, with assorted features you don’t want and none of the ones you used to love
The new Skype looks much like a child who swallowed far too many Halloween candies and happened to be facing a monitor during the inevitable outcome; a feature not many requested. Also…
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Skype Deprecates Several Platforms
Microsoft has just announced that they will be retiring several Skype apps in about a month’s time (July 1st). The affected platforms are Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone 8.1, Messaging...
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Glad it is not Podcast night! Microsoft is not having a good day
Many users of Hotmail, Outlook and Skype are finding themselves unable to log in to their accounts and some are complaining about access to their XBox accounts. The problem is being described…
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Logitech Releases C922 Pro Stream Webcam with 720p/60
Logitech has announced the successor to the popular C920 with the C922 Pro Stream Webcam, and this new model includes a 720p/60 mode, along with the 1080p/30 capability of its predecessor....
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Now we know what happened to Josh’s stream; does your camera do YUY2 encoding?
In their infinite wisdom, Microsoft has disabled MJPEG and H.264 encoding on USB webcams for Skype in their Adversary Update to Windows 10, leaving only YUY2 encoding as your choice. The supposed…
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Make friends in six languages witih Skype
Useful real time translation, as opposed to the entertaining kind, has been a challenge for programmers for quite some time now, even professional real time translators working for the news or…
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Skype for Web Beta in the US and UK
If you are on the go and need to make a Skype call from a machine you cannot install software on and your mobile device is out of juice or just not…
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Need another reason to try out Win10? How about live translation on Skype
The Skype Translator service has been available for users that signed up and were approved by Microsoft for testing. It has now been made available for any and all users of Windows…
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An interesting day to be a mobile Windows 8 user
If you own a Nokia Lumia phone which runs Win 8.1 then there is an update with quite a few interesting features available. US customers will see a Cortana update while all…
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Time to give up on programming applications for Skype?
If you have used third party software to bring extra functionality to Skype like call recording or integrating the ability to integrate in a non-standard way then you better enjoy it now…
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