Skype Releases Brand New Linux Client Making Use Of WebRTC

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Skype Releases Brand New Linux Client Making Use Of WebRTC

Many of you have been wondering what's the "exciting" Skype Linux news that the Microsoft-owned developers have been teasing since last week... Here's the details...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Skype-New-WebRTC-Client

[chuckula]

Skype is one of those things that I don't run around trying to use but it's something that I have to use on occasion.
It's good to see more support for Linux for those times when I have to use it, and it's nice to see them adopting WebRTC too.

[AnAk]

Do they still spy on your computer with it?

[gufide]

While many of you anticipated it would be Skype moving to a browser-only solution on Linux, what they have just announced is a brand new Linux client.

Well, it was pretty much anticipated. Instead of going to a website, you have to download it and running it with a web renderer.

Seems like big companies lost the ability to make desktop app. Web things are cheap, any idiot can do JavaScript and CSS.

[bonob]

So the new client is 64-bit? That would be great news!

[duby229]

So the new client is 64-bit? That would be great news!

It's basically just a web browser now, soooo..... Hopefully.

[anarki2]

Duh, Skype for Business would be much more important

[kersurk]

Duh, Skype for Business would be much more important

Not gonna happen!

[Guest]

Well, webrtc filters probably mean that they got rid of that proprietary codec that was pretty good 10 years ago but nowadays it isn't worth disk space / network traffic it occupies.
Apart from being completely useles for anything other than human speech it suffered from volume normalization going bananas and annoying echo / sound modulation "effects".

[Mickabouille]

Web things are cheap, any idiot can do JavaScript and CSS.

Nope.
Any idiot can write idiotic Javascript and CSS.