Skype introduces synchronization of messages on different devices

Skype users send each other billions of text messages per month. Therefore, it is very nice that the developers finally got their hands on this function. Yesterday, the official blog published a plan to improve the functionality of Skype for the near future. One of the points is improving text chat with support for better synchronization between mobile and desktop clients.

It is very inconvenient when you talk with your interlocutor in a Skype chat on a tablet / smartphone, and then sit down at the computer - and there was no chance for this chat session. All the more insulting that on third-party clients (IM +) synchronization works quite well, but in the official Skype it does not. Fortunately, this will be fixed soon.

“We are working on synchronizing text message statuses among all your devices, so you will know the current status of all your chats on every device you use to connect to Skype. This function is implemented on all clients over the next few months, ”the official blog said.
')
At the same time, the power consumption of the mobile version of Skype will be significantly reduced, because it will learn to go to sleep mode with shifting the message receiving function to the cloud backend.

Skype developers are reminding that last year they finally transferred the program to their own cloud platform ( supernotes hosted by Microsoft ). Thanks to the migration to supernods, which began long before Skype became the property of Microsoft, it became possible to reliably deliver messages from offline. Now it doesn't matter if both recipients are online or not, a message from one to the other will come in any case. Reliable synchronization between different clients is another step in improving the performance of the cloud platform.

Unfortunately, synchronization of text chat does not improve the security of such a communication channel, which in no case can not be used to transmit confidential data. Who knows who else our chats are “synchronized” with?