The new chat UI could use some tightening up, especially if spread out across a large, high-resolution monitor, to cut out some of that white space. On a phone, scrolling is part of the experience. Why this matters: What’s good for the goose isn’t necessarily good for the gander.
Skype 7.0 for Mac (as well as the preview for Windows machines) inject a lot of white space. We’ve brought more improvements to the desktop,” Tom Huang, a Skype exec, wrote in a blog post. “For the last year we’ve dedicated a lot of time to refresh the chat experience in Skype. But there’s still an awful lot of white space, which may annoy some. Both include a number of potentially attractive productivity improvements, including the ability to chat and talk simultaneously in the new Mac version. Microsoft’s Skype announced version 7.0 for the Mac together with a new preview version for the Windows desktop. Chatting in Skype for Windows and the Mac now looks more like the Windows Phone version, whether you like it or not.
