What I'd like to see next is for you to respect my privacy and leave me alone. I love it when things like this don’t happen. Well, Microsoft, what I think is that you are invading my desktop in a most unwelcome way. The Skype Preview welcome screen invites me to 'Use the smiley feedback button to let us know what you think, what you love or even what you’d like to see next'. We've already seen it happen with Windows 10 itself, and now it would appear that Microsoft is using the same underhand tactic to push more of its services on people.

I'm sure I'm not alone in not appreciating having crap pushed at me like this. The profile was nowhere near half complete - only the name and email address (clearly scooped up from my Windows 10 account) were present. perhaps this is actually an account I created and forgot about. I was informed that my profile was 50 percent completed. Intrigued, I clicked through to the profile that Microsoft had signed me into. Users in addition see the status of their contacts in Skype as well. Users who do that benefit from the following feature: the ability to send and receive instant messages from friends using Messenger, Xbox, Hotmail or. Not content with using the Start menu to advertise apps, it seems that Microsoft is now using the desktop to push adverts to users in the form of notifications! Microsoft account owners can sign in with their account as well without having to create a Skype account first. it's because Windows 10 is all about advertising these days! So why on earth is Microsoft pushing its horrible messaging client on me so aggressively? Why is it creating an account for me that I haven't asked for? Why is it signing me into that account without my permission? Oh, that's right. You would actually have to pay me to use it. In case it's not yet abundantly clear, I hate Skype with a boundless passion. This would be fine if I had expressed even the slightest interest in Skype. 'We're getting the next version of Skype for Windows ready and we'd like you to give it a try today'.

'Say hello to the new Skype' screamed the screen that appeared.

Despite my utter hatred of Skype, curiosity got the better of me and I clicked the notification to find out what the hell was going on.

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