{"id":22122,"date":"2019-02-20T21:01:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T20:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=22122"},"modified":"2019-02-20T21:01:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T20:01:42","slug":"skyped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/skyped\/","title":{"rendered":"Skyped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not content with trashing the trusty old Skype desktop interface, and replacing it with shiny app-ized blah, Microsoft&#8217;s latest Skype update has now completely locked many people out of using Skype. Including me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2019\/02\/2019-02-20_183729.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2019\/02\/2019-02-20_183729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"54\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-22123\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft seems to have developed a knack for blowing up their updates. In this case the interface, such as it is, is &#8220;frozen&#8221; and unusable.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, time for a downgrade. The latest Skype Classic no longer works as a fallback, as Microsoft started blocking it from service in early 2019.  Instead, I find that one can still downgrade <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winytips.com\/download-skype-classic-7-41-101-7-40-104\/\">to the Skype Classic 7.36.01 standalone installer<\/a>. It works fine under Windows 8.1.x as long as you turn off its automatic updates. As a bonus, you get the old user interface back again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not content with trashing the trusty old Skype desktop interface, and replacing it with shiny app-ized blah, Microsoft&#8217;s latest Skype &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/skyped\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jurn-tips-and-tricks","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}