Microsoft adds five new AI chat bots to Skype

Over the next few months, Microsoft is pretty much entirely rewriting Skype and replacing all the existing clients. Skype has traditionally been a peer to peer application, and used client computers as supernodes and such. They are moving to a fully cloud infrastructure, and will probably perform similarly to other chat clients based in the cloud.

Of course, the other half of this is that depending on which newer or older Skype clients you have, you may or may not be able to talk to other people based on what clients they have. Messy transition period.

To be honest since Microsoft took ownership of Skype, Skype itself is weakness of Skype.

I myself went from literally a daily Skype user with two Skype accounts to someone who uses Facebook Messenger instead (for text AND video-calling).

Literally the only reason I even load Skype now is to use up my Skype credit on international calling. And even that is painful, as they might break my user credentials for the nth time.

Skype had a lot of issues before the acquisition, it has even more now.