Stop forcing software on us

I'm going to add to the long list of users who are in outrage on your decision to force software on users.
There's no reason why we should be forced to use this new ui. Skype just keeps on digging this hole it seems, over and over. This isn't the first time I've been upset about this it's just the first time I've decided to post anything about it.
The "auto-upgrades" (auto-downgrades) are intrusive and need to end immediately.
Making the UI look more fancy and removing the functionality of the software isn't making people happy, it's driving them crazy. Even if I lower the font size to the lowest setting in this new version 7 of Skype, it's still too hard to fit enough text on the screen in the chat window. This is because these gigantic emoticons appear along with the avatar of the user in every single chat message and a gigantic chat bubble. You're making higher resolutions pretty pointless. This is a step backwards, not forwards. Let's just force all Windows users to use 800x600 while you're at it Microsoft.
Even if I deny the update with firewall your software still updates somehow, that's classified as a virus. It's downloading and installing things without my permission and WITH my explicitly chosen "no" answer to the software. I also find it very funny that you are suggesting we enable automatic updates to keep Skype updated yet it will automatically update regardless of that setting. Also not the first person to notice that, but still have to mention it with my rant.
This is rediculous, not to mention that you are restricting people from even using it because you release Skype when it isn't ready to go public yet and alot of people have major issues where they can't even get into their accounts (luckily that wasn't me).
Today when I woke up you had booted me off Skype. I had tried your new version 7 when everyone kept telling me about the updated Skype version. It was terrible, I've already had to adjust to the previous changes you've made to the software that make it less user-friendly but this just crosses the line. The thing you've done with the contacts and chat that make it as if we are using 800x600 resolution is just TOO MUCH. So when I come to my PC after waking up today I see that it says "can't connect to Skype". I continued to get this error and logged in fine on my Android device (more on that later) and on the Skype.com website. I tried other versions and they said my password was incorrect. Huh? I just checked and it was working fine. So I checked again and it worked fine but I decided to change my password anyways to see if that fixes the obvious bug. Now I was able to sign in but the software automatically downgrades to version 7 from version 6.x.
Now onto the Android topic. You made it impossible to sign in with any other clients to Skype and have essentially wasted my money on an app I thought was pretty good and handled Skype much better than the official app. Why don't you stop trying to take everything over, can't it be enough people are registering accounts and using your services for chatting. It's not hurting anyone if we want functionality in our chat clients.
For future reference, for those people who don't know which verison I'm talking about... When skype started looking like this is what I'm mostly referring to in this rant:
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