Today, Skype told me that it needed to update itself. You know the kind of thing:

So I clicked on the “Update” button and then saw this dialog box:

I thought it was curious that it was “Downloading 32.7 MB of 22.2 MB”, but I let it carry on with the download in the hope it would sort itself out.

Finally, a third dialog box appeared:

I think the developers did a good job of dealing with this problem in their user interface but it’s sad that a mass market application like Skype has this problem at all.