Microsoft kills off Skype for Windows touch app in favor of desktop version

Microsoft is simplifying Skype for Windows into a single application. While the software giant has offered a touch-friendly Skype app for Windows 8 and a separate desktop app for Windows 7 and Windows 8 PCs, Microsoft is removing the finger-friendly version in favor of the traditional PC app. Any users of the Windows 8 specific version of Skype will be pushed towards the desktop version starting July 7th. "We’re updating PC users of the Windows modern application to the Windows desktop application, and retiring the modern application," explains Skype’s Aga Guzik. "With the upcoming release of Windows 10 for PCs, it makes sense to use the Skype application optimized for mouse and keyboards use, capable of doing touch as well rather than 2...

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