What can I say, Microsoft are up their own bum.
Sent from myMail for iOS Thursday, 28 April 2016, 13:45 +0100 from p...@aptanet.com <p...@aptanet.com>: >** Terry Coles < d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk > [2016-04-28 07:01]: >> On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 19:13:19 BST Keith Edmunds wrote: >> > If you want to run Skype, run Windows. If you want a VoIP solution, there >> > are many to choose from. >> >> That's a bit extreme. I have no wish to run Windows, but I do need a VOIP >> Client that I can use to contact my relations, particularly my mother who is >> deaf and needs to lip-read. >> >> Since none of my family run Linux, and they all use Skype, I would like to >> be >> able to use it too. I must admit that when Microsoft introduced Skype for >> Linux, I was puzzled as to their motives, but was glad that they had. Now >> that they have decided to stop supporting it (they never did much anyway), I >> can't say I'm surprised. >> >> It doesn't stop me trying to get them to keep it. >** end quote [Terry Coles] > >If I remember correctly the Linux client was introduced before Microsft bought >them. I think it has had an update since, but don't quote me on that! The last >time I used Skype, which must be a couple of years ago now, I had so much >hassle getting a connection that in the end all it was used for was a text >based chat to arrange to move the conversation to a Google Hangout. I hadn't >used it for a while at that point and only installed it for that conversation. >All that said, I have signed to add my support for something that would be a >nice option to have. I suspect, though, that it is more likely to show that >there isn't enough interest for Microsoft to really bother about. Many Linux >users will either be happy to, or prefer to use something else, so it is only >the poor people who have to communicate with non technical Windows/Mac users >(although I may be over generalising there!). > >-- > Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | https://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 > Vice Chair, FSB Portsmouth & SE Hampshire Branch | http://www.fsb.org.uk/ >============================================================================= >Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Ralls House, >Parklands Business Park, Forrest Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6XP > >-- >Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-05-03 20:00 >Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ >New thread: mailto: dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING >Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-05-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
