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Re:Microsoft and Skype to axe world's most popular IM client... by UnoriginalGuy on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @09:13AM (#4753422)
It does indeed. But have you used it? It is missing most of Skype's features and requires you to sign in using a Live Account.

Merging Live and Skype Accounts is a problem for me personally since I want to use Skype on insecure WiFi (and obviously my Live account is also an e-mail account).

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Re:Microsoft and Skype to axe world's most popular IM client... by icebraining on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @11:20AM (#4753890)
What's the problem? As long as your terminal is secure, the channel should be safe even over insecure Wifi, since the Skype client has a copy of the certificate of the server and can therefore authenticate it.
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