Where do I find the things that MS has removed fro...

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I was on a Help desk operation for 2-1/2 years and used Skype all the time. That ended a little after MS took the product. After that I was on Skype very little. I didn't upgrade since I saw that MS had removed one feature that I needed. When I came back to Skype a couple of years later, Skype was forcing me to upgrade and I didn't like what I wasn't seeing.
I used to be able to find Skype users by phone number, email addy, name, etc. In one of the first updates by MS I say that when looking by email addy, MS would only search for Skype users in certain domains, just the MS owned domains. Now I can't find a way to search for Skype users at all! If Skype has a way to do this, how to???
There used to be a way to see other users computer screen. Though I never used that feature, now I need it. How to??
There used to be a method for making changes to a message after sending and even deleting a sent message. How is this done now??
There used to be a way to include icons within a message from a list that Skype provided. How to??
Is there a list of differences since MS took over??
There used to be a way to see messages from the past year and from since I started with Skype. How to??
Thanks Chris C
I know there are other things that have slipped away, but these are the primary ones that I need in the short term. As I stumble on other things, I'll ask about them.
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Thanks for the excellent response!!
Even though I’ve accepted your response, there’s some additional things that may be useful to others reading that response and some things where I need to verify my understanding and/or I’d like to have Skype make some changes.
On the Search function, it’s well hidden.  I also found the facility on the Conversation menu, but that doesn’t really fit well.  Perhaps Skype would create instead an additional item for Search in the bar below the Title bar and cause a click to bring up a small box for entering the type of search and the contents to search for.  And then a user could specify sending a message from Skype or click outside the box to go back to the normal Skype page.  In the older Skype, Search brought up a new page for this.  A small dialog box would work better than a separate page.  From testing which I did, search does accept a persons name also.
I found the screen sharing option which you mentioned, on the Call menu.  I presume that the operation is only active between the account making the call and the person who has received the call and is activated only when the person receiving the call goes to the Call menu and clicks on Share Screens.  That brings up 3 questions:
    Can the person making the call also click on Share Screens?
    Can this be done on video calls only and/or audio calls?
    Can this allow control of the other persons system (keyboard and mouse)?
I spent 2-1/2 years supporting FamilySearch.org and we made heavy use of this feature, but for some reason that I’m not aware of, we never used the facility in Skype.
Edit/Delete messages is very well hidden and I can’t remember how we did this in the older (versions 4 and 5) of Skype.  It now requires a RIGHT click on either the message or the time displayed to the right of the first line of the message.  Skype might consider showing the time in bolded red for as long as the message is within the time limits for Edit/Delete?
I’m sure Skype gets never ending requests for a longer or lesser value for the time limit.  Perhaps Skype would consider a user defined value for the limit and a default of 1 hour if the user has not specified a value?
Emoticons are pretty much the same as we had in older versions of Skype.
Perhaps Skype could consider relocating “Send SMS from Skype”.  Having the message so close results in new users stumbling into that accidently.  It was the same in older versions of Skype also.
With well over 45k of these in the 3.5 years you’ve been doing this, you would have to average at least 100 of these in an 8 hour work day!  I would guess that you work for Skype and that fact brings great credit to Skype.  Thanks again for your help.