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Posted by: J.A. Watson (Friday 7 December 2007, 8:38 PM)

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Why can Skype not just be forthcoming?

Thanks for a good, timely article making some important points. It really escapes me why Skype is not able to simply be open, honest and forthcoming with their customers. They built an excellent reputation and grabbed a huge share of the market by making a good product a lot sooner than anyone else. They now seem to be determined to lose that reputation, and a good part of the market, because of a product that is suffering worse than usual growing pains, a market that is punishing them because someone else vastly overpaid for their company, and their own "fortress mentality", withholding critical information, attempting to dictate what hardware and other software they will allow or support on their users computers, and denying everything.

By the way, one small correction to your reference to my blog. It is not only one user, or a few users, who have a problem with Skype producing excessive Page Faults. Every installation of the current version of Skype (3.6) produces somewhere between 700 and 10,000 Page Faults per Second, constantly.

Thanks again for a good article.

J.A. Watson

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