Microsoft deliberately sabotages Skype - illegal under Australian law.

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Last month in Australia and the months prior to that in the
USA Microsoft once again broke the Australian law regarding
the illegal insertion, deletion and modification of data
without the end users approval, by doing something similar
to Skype.

They doubled down after having already gotten away with a
previous violation of Australian data protection law when
they broke every computer still using Windows Live mail, by
releasing a forced update to their fake outlook app, which
in many cases locked people out of their email history and
email in general, as they didn't bother to migrate inbox
data and mailbox settings in the process. (which at least
had a temp work around to recover your mail if you forced
the fake outlook to uninstall)

In this case they released a forced update which locks out
the user interface of skype with a phishing scammer style
screen that would pop up full screen and block the user
interface of skype when you tried to use it.  This locked
people out of previous conversations, uploaded media and
such which in some cases (such as groups using skype for
closed beta tests and the like)  where a significant amount
of material was lost.  There also appears to be no obvious
work around to recover your lost data.

This was particularly brutal, as skype itself would in many
instances still be running and signed in, and you would hear
message notifications or the income call sound, but there
would be no way to actually accept the call or read the
messages.  On top of this, not everyone locked out of skype
would have had microsoft teams, their pitiful  security
backdoor nightmare that they are trying to force everyone to
use instead.

This means in some special use scenarios such as those in
care or using skype to check on at risk family members - 
the family member would suddenly go radio silence,  they
would show online, but there would be no way to contact them.

This likely caused a lot of casualties** in the cases where
someone might use Skype to ask for help, and was no longer
able to.

** Skype was a popular tool for elderly users not familiar
with social media or email for relatives to keep in touch do
to its simple "touch free"   auto launch and sign in.


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