<p>Ever since Microsoft started forcing Windows Live Messenger users over to Skype earlier this year, instant messaging on Windows has been somewhat painful. If you're a frequent Skype user then you'll be intimately familiar with the problems. Missed messages, out of sync messages, and blasts of old messages are all too frequent on the service at the moment, but Microsoft is vowing to fix the issues.</p><p>In an interview with The Verge, Skype product manager Jeff Kunins admits Microsoft is aware of the problems and is working to address them very soon. They mainly stem from Microsoft's transition from peer-to-peer networks for Skype to cloud-powered servers. Skype has traditionally been used for voice and video calling on desktop PCs, but as the world has moved to mobile Skype hasn't adapted its own infrastructure quickly enough to handle multiple devices. "It's not that we've been trying our best to be amazing at chat for 10 year and sucking at it, it's that we've been doing a great job doing what we were born to do and now people want more out of us and we're making the investments to expand and be great at that too," explains Kunins. "We're not there yet, but we will be."</p><p>Messages will soon sync their state across phone and PC</p><p>Microsoft is testing a number of updates to its client apps that will enable full message sync across multiple devices, including read or unread state. Kunins demonstrated updated versions of Windows Phone and Windows desktop apps that will properly sync messages and only trigger notifications on the active device. "You'll see us very soon begin rolling that out so users get the benefit of cloud history, synced read state across all of your devices," says Kunins.</p><p><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/25/5142910/skype-messaging-fix-windows-phone-8-1-features">Keep reading...</a></p>