Overall Satisfaction with HipChat
We use HipChat across the whole organization to communicate with a distributed team, with members located in many corners of world - Russia, Brazil, US, Japan, India... Sometimes when problems with other messengers occurs, we also use HipChat to make video calls. Here we are missing group videocalls. So we use Skype for it, and this is the only reason to use Skype. The rest of HipChat works very well. Earlier versions of HipChat had troubles with Windows 7 x64, but nowadays it is very stable and works perfectly.
- Storing messages history
- Sending and storing docs
- Stability and scalability
- Group video calls
Hmm, actually we use both, but HipChat is currently much more stable and has functionality reach on every platform. For example, Skype for Linux misses very many features in comparison with "flagship" Windows version of it. The only reason to use Skype, I repeat, it is still remains group video calls. We will just abandon Skype, when such functionality will appear in HipChat.