Yes, Slack will not replace all use-cases of Skype, but it can easily be used for inter-office communication which is a key user-group that Microsoft does not want to lose, especially in smaller organizations that could grow up into enterprise customers. Skype, which has had a number of issues during 2015 including multiple devices continuing to ring after a call was answered, has become a low-point for Microsoft and is falling out-of-favor with younger tech workers who prefer to use Slack. In the Skype support forums, Claudis, the community manager and admin of the forum says that this is a known issue and that the work-around is to download an older version of Skype.įrankly, this is borderline unacceptable for the most basic feature of a chat application to not work correctly.

This problem started showing up for me last week and with another co-worker earlier today. The bug causes the messages you have received to be out of order and makes having a conversation using the tool quite difficult. At first, I thought it was simply an issue with my machine and the time zone (which Windows 10 kept changing to Pacific time even though I am in Eastern) but after taking a look at Skype’s support forum and chatting with co-workers, it looks like I am not alone. If you are running the latest version of Skype (7.17.0.105) that came out a few weeks ago, you may have noticed a nice little bug that places some messages out of order.

Skype chat out of order