Useless chat window in skype 6.18 with coloured b...

WTH is this on new Skype with the chat window and coloured boxes you can only see about 3 posts at a time. How can I get the normal chat text back?
and the supid profile picture in the chat window too. Oh this is too much now Skype is just getting ridiculous

Thanks for the link to the earlier version of Skype, version 7.0 is just bl**dy awful. I simply do not understand MS, they seem to be hell bent on destroying Skype which, until MS took over, was a nice simple slick program to use. I think there may be a great many profssional users like me that want to throw up with all this 'social media' bulldust and what seems to be a 'dumbing down' of the application (this also applies to the latest incarnation of 'hotmail', yuck). Sometimes I feel that MS think all their users are morons that need their hands held all the time!!!
Version 7 stuck pictures again my contacts list, at a stroke leaving only 30% of my contacts visible. Oh yes you can turn the pictures off (thank goodness) BUT the space the pictures took up remains so my list was STILL showing only 30% as many names as it did. Then there is the appalling colour scheme in the chat window. The pale shade of blue made it pretty near impossible to see the date stamp at the right!  MUCH happier with the older version 6 back in place, I still prefer version 5 but MS won't allow that to run
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