My laptop is not a phone. Don't treat it like one.

My laptop is not a mobile phone the last time I checked.  Unless mobile phones started weighing 15 pounds and play Crysis 2 Maxed, Star Citizen Maxed, and any other game you can think of, maxed, with 18" screens.
So, don't treat it like a mobile phone with your crappy chat bubbles that liturally everyone who isn't on a mobile phone hates, even some people on phones hate it.
Why is it so hard for Microsoft to add options to the app?  Seriously?  Liturally every other chat program in the world has the ability to be skinned to the user's liking.  What does MS do?  They force you to use their choice only.  Then people came up with MSN Plus when MSN used to exist and they kept trying to take that out cause like, god forbid users have some choices when using a messenger.  God forbid we actually like the look of our messenger!
I've posted this elsewhere, but this used to be my messenger before you canceled skypekit.exe for no reason whatsoever other than to force people to use mobile ugly skype.
Now here is what I'm stuck with,
Isn't it wonderful?  Look at all that space I totally saved in my tiny small sentences of messages.  By having 4 inches of white on either side of my messages.  Cause that's how real messengers look now days.
However I did notice you can expand the thing a bit, but the chat bubbles are still confusing and useless.  you have tons of angry people posting that they want them gone and your responce, is to ignore them?  I thought Microsoft was all about listening to the customer.  Is that not really true?  No one wants bland Windows 8 paint.exe type graphics.  That's why I'm still on Windows 7, cause liturally there is zero advantage to downgrading to Windows 8 or 10.  All you get is a loss in graphics and the world's ugliest apps.  :/  Skype being an examle of this, being forced on people who still have a real operating system like me.
The world isn't full of tiny pitiful tablets that have a processor as powerful as a SNES.  Stop treating us like all our computers suck and couldn't process a simple gradient or rounded corner or Windows Aero.  If people don't want Aero, they will disable it.  Don't automatically disable it for them and give them something you drew up in paint.exe.  Seriously.  Skype is the ugliest thing on my laptop now.  :/
Thank you, this has been another angry rant by me, Vas.

You are not alone in wanting options! There's a very long thread on the 7.0 UI currently running at 850 messages, of which about 2 have been positive. You may want to take a look there too.
(And you may also want to read my blog post ...)
Sean Ellis - uses Skype chat for serious work
Click here to read my blog post on Skype 7 and basic principles of GUI design

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