Petition Phone calls for Microsoft to Hold the Skype API Alive

Microsoft will officially retire the Skype Desktop API in December, but as much as developers are concerned, this is a poor choice that will substantially impact their companies.

Third - party application creators have rolled out a petition calling for Redmond to reconsider the final decision to retire the API, conveying that developers need help to apply new capabilities, such as get in touch with recording, chat archiving, chat translation, and headset procedure.

&ldquoThe determination to discontinue Skype's Desktop API impacts our skill to use Skype in my usual Skype calling act ivities. Please rethink this final decision and give a migration path this kind of that the user performance provided by these API's is sustained. In summary we request that Skype/Microsoft provide ongoing guidance for 3rd party Skype utilities that have grow to be mission essential to Skype's people,&rdquo the petition reads.

Microsoft is still to concern a assertion on this, but the company stated it loud in very clear in the official retirement announcement that it wishes to get rid of the desktop API mainly because it was produced in 2004 and it doesn&rsquot assistance cellular application progress.