As a long term Ubuntu user, I appreciate this much.
As a Samsung SmartTV owner, I'm curious how long will it take for Microsoft to bring back Skype for this platform.
Now that Android Apps hit ChromeOS Dev on Asus Flip, Pixel 2015, and R11, I'm not sure what more point there is for a web-version of Skype (on Chrome and ChromeOS) - except that Android Apps will not obviously be available for older devices. Still, glad to see progress is being made, because this has been a long-standing issue for further adoption of the ChromeOS platform.
Now if they only restore the quality of actual Skype calls/video that would be great. I see a significant deterioration of quality over time. I can't remember a skype call that wasn't disconnected, a conference call that someone didn't get muffled or a video call that worked well in recent time. I've been trying to use hangouts for most conf calls because of that.
I wonder why the webrtc video calls only work on Chrome(OS) and not other modern browsers (Firefox, and even Brave which is also a Blink based browser).
This is fantastic news - Skype is a decent product, and fairly universal, but it also happens to be NSA spyware. I'll now use it, because it's sandboxed within a web page!
Is satya stupid or something? What is wrong with microsoft? Why does it take so long to bring it to chromebooks and its still Beta? Chromebook doesn't run useless operating system like "Windows" and doesn't have any complexity. Why do you need people to beta test? Are you really that stupid?
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But I can't blame them, I can imagine the difficulty of maintaining a native Linux application considering that the majority of their users are either on Windows or Mac. Since they released the web client I knew they would come up with this "solution" to offer a new client for Linux users. At least the mobile version is native, otherwise I would be flipping tables. Guess Electron is winning more and more space among millennial developers, so maybe I should give up on hating these web applications disguising themselves as native software altogether.
Productivity from native desktop development of tools like Delphi and XAML are probably bonn fire old tales that millenals hear from ancient grumpy old developers that cannot grasp how wonderful HTML 5 is.
Instead of getting mad, you could just stop using Skype. There are better cross-platform alternatives like Jitsi that actually treat their Linux users with respect.
As a Linux user I'll take anything when it comes to Skype, even if it feels a little cheap to get a packaged web app, I dont know why, there is no reason for it really, its not like I'm going to use it offline anyway.
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But I can't blame them, I can imagine the difficulty of maintaining a native Linux application considering that the majority of their users are either on Windows or Mac. Since they released the web client I knew they would come up with this "solution" to offer a new client for Linux users. At least the mobile version is native, otherwise I would be flipping tables. Guess Electron is winning more and more space among millennial developers, so maybe I should give up on hating these web applications disguising themselves as native software altogether.
Productivity from native desktop development of tools like Delphi and XAML are probably bonn fire old tales that millenals hear from ancient grumpy old developers that cannot grasp how wonderful HTML 5 is.
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