Skype to retire Desktop API support by end of 2013
Skype, and its parent company Microsoft, will be retiring its older Desktop API for third party developers by the end of the year. That's according to an email that was sent to many of those developers this week by Chris Andrews, the current head of Microsoft's Skype Developer Program.
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We were looking for a new cordless phone to recommend to our customers and we were intrigued by the concept of Wi-Fi rather than DECT, so that there was no longer a base station and the phones could be used across a large building without installed DECT repeaters and trying to figure out which handsets went with which base stations.