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Clearly, Skype On Linux Has No Future

By on May 12th, 2011     

When Microsoft purchased, we feared for the future of Skype on Linux. But some people managed to find comfort in Microsoft's announcement that they will support non-Microsoft platforms. Well here is evidence that Skype is not interested in Linux:

In Skype's blog post yesterday, they published a video but requires Microsoft Silverlight to watch - and no, it does not work with Moonlight.

This is equivalent to giving a big middle finger to all the Linux users who have been hopeful of Microsoft's acquisition. If they do care about this segment of their users, they would not have published something on their blog which is impossible to watch on Linux.

If we (the Linux users) cannot even watch stuffs they post on their blog, clearly Skype is not interested in Linux and the future of Skype on Linux is non existent.




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  • http://webhostingreview.info/windows-hosting/ Smithon56

    i have no idea about it

  • tomek

    hmm… too early to tell. There is also OS X. What happens to them? Is Steve Jobs going to launch his own Skype service via iTunes?

    • 8008

      @tomek Yeah — it’s called FaceTime

  • http://twitter.com/andrewrjones Andrew Jones

    Think your reading too much into this. At least, I hope you are…

  • Marcus

    skype on linux was always a pile of old toss anyway. Sad thing is there isnt any replacement for skype as far as I can see.

  • http://thedahv.no.de David Pierce

    It was a “Jump to Conclusions” mat. You see, it would be this mat that you would put on the floor… and would have different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO.

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  • Pcricket10

    Hmm. It works flawlessly on Moonlight for me… You must be running an older version. Update to Moonlight 4 Preview



Clearly, Skype On Linux Has No Future was originally published on Digitizor.com on May 12, 2011 - 4:05 pm (Indian Standard Time)