Microsoft Rolls Out A Preview Of The New Skype For Linux

[Davidovitch]

The problem with the Skype app is that it doesn't work on AMD Athlon/Phenom II systems (see also comments on Arch Linux AUR package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/skypeforlinux-bin/). The app does have desktop sharing (on a working Intel system), but the web version doesn't.

[hrkristian]

Indeed, where are PowerPC, ARM, and ARM64 versions?

You mean Skype for Android?

[jukk]

Skype for Business on Linux I would much prefer so I can integrate my work and still use a hosted PBX.

I used the instructions provided here https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comme...linux/dac7vyl/ and got Pidgin running with the so called Skype for Business on Fedora.

[Veske]

Skype for Business on Linux I would much prefer so I can integrate my work and still use a hosted PBX.

Skype for business is being deprecated and will be replaced by Microsoft Teams.

[roothorick]

Microsoft, I still remember what Skype was before you got your bloody hands on it. And I'm still bitter.

I've been using Discord lately; their Linux client rather impressed me. Sure, it's basically a cleverly wrapped web app, but you think their Windows client isn't? And it's not a bad paradigm in the first place -- look at Github's Atom.

[Luke_Wolf]

Microsoft, I still remember what Skype was before you got your bloody hands on it. And I'm still bitter.

A client that was ancient and slowly breaking down, and that had many years between updates even when they did? Skype for Linux was terrible in the Pre-Microsoft Buyout world.

I've been using Discord lately; their Linux client rather impressed me. Sure, it's basically a cleverly wrapped web app, but you think their Windows client isn't? And it's not a bad paradigm in the first place -- look at Github's Atom.

On the contrary web apps wrapped as desktop apps is a horrid paradigm, unfortunately it's the "hot" thing right now so we've got to tolerate it's crappiness.

[tuuker]

Phoronix: Microsoft Rolls Out A Preview Of The New Skype For Linux

Adding to the list of Microsoft's Linux actions in 2017 comes a new preview version of the "next-generation" Skype for Linux...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...NG-Skype-Linux

Skype is becoming social media soon and only true serverless IM is Tox now and is not based on bloated software structure like most of IM apps that are basically browsers turned into so called app. Currently in development

[Hi-Angel]

On the contrary web apps wrapped as desktop apps is a horrid paradigm, unfortunately it's the "hot" thing right now so we've got to tolerate it's crappiness.

I guess you won't be complaining though if somebody gonna add the voice/video calls to its pidgin plugin, thus, basically, making it a FOSS skype https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pi...aster/skypeweb :Ь

[starshipeleven]

Indeed, where are PowerPC, ARM, and ARM64 versions?

I'm very unhappy that it's not available for MIPS, man, I mean my router wanted to skype me and now he can't!

[starshipeleven]

Crazy conspiracy theorists, there's no evidence Microsoft sold us out to the NSA.

http://techrights.org/2015/01/02/snowden-leaks-on-spying/

Sleeper cells are plotting in caves on the other side the planet though... probably with Internet trolls sent by Putin. LOL

MS cannot say no to warrants issued by judges, just like any other company not using end-to-end encryption, and this is well-known since forever.

Well done NSA guy, it's nearly believable bullshit.