While that problem won’t be fixed at the same time as messaging, it’s something Microsoft is working to fix. Skype also suffers from problems syncing call states, meaning some devices will continue ringing even if another device has picked up the call. Kunins couldn’t provide an exact date for the rollout of the improvements, but he promises it’s "pretty soon." The improvements worked flawlessly in a demo between mobile and PC, where read state was synced promptly between the two. At present notifications will trigger on all devices connected to Skype constantly, a headache for users with a Windows PC, tablet, and phone. The sync support means that notifications for messages will trigger on all devices connected to a Skype account, but notifications will only continue on the device that’s active and in use. "You’ll see us very soon begin rolling that out so users get the benefit of cloud history, synced read state across all of your devices," says Kunins. Kunins demonstrated updated versions of Windows Phone and Windows desktop apps that will properly sync messages and only trigger notifications on the active device.
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Microsoft is testing a number of updates to its client apps that will enable full message-sync across multiple devices, including whether a message is read or unread.
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Messages will soon sync their state across phone and PC "It’s not that we’ve been trying our best to be amazing at chat for 10 year and sucking at it, it’s that we’ve been doing a great job doing what we were born to do and now people want more out of us and we’re making the investments to expand and be great at that too," explains Kunins. Skype has traditionally been used for voice and video calling on desktop PCs, but as the world has moved to mobile Skype hasn’t adapted its own infrastructure quickly enough to handle multiple devices. They mainly stem from Microsoft’s transition from peer-to-peer networks for Skype to cloud-powered servers. In an interview with The Verge, Skype product manager Jeff Kunins admits Microsoft is aware of the problems and is working to address them very soon.
Missed messages, out-of-sync messages, and blasts of old messages are all too frequent on the service at the moment, but Microsoft is vowing to fix the issues. If you’re a frequent Skype user then you’ll be intimately familiar with the problems. Ever since Microsoft started forcing Windows Live Messenger users over to Skype earlier this year, instant messaging on Windows has been somewhat painful.
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