Microsoft to shut London Skype office putting 220 jobs at risk

Re:Microsoft to shut London Skype office putting 220 jobs at... by collyw on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @12:15PM (#12540655)

I use Skype on Linux. Its a few versions behind, but to be honest last time I looked at it on Windows it was full of unnecessary flashy effects with no real purpose. I don't care about those as the Linux interface is fine for me. The call quality is crap whatever platform is being used.

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Re:Microsoft to shut London Skype office putting 220 jobs at... by ansgri on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @05:28PM (#12543593)

Skype for Linux' UI is definitely better than the ad-ridden Windows counterpart. BUT it doesn't work. At work we have a lot of group chats, and some of them simply aren't shown in the Linux Desktop client.

And Skype for Web is utter crap (no non-latin search in contacts, WTF?), though it displays all messages.

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Re:Microsoft to shut London Skype office putting 220 jobs at... by geomark on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @07:45PM (#12544313)

It is pretty bad that a company with a global product doesn't include global support. In addition to the lack of support for non-latin characters in search, here's another one. I live in a country that uses the Buddhist era calendar. So the year is 2559 not 2016, a difference of 543 years. Skype sent me a notice that one of my contacts had a birthday and had turned 579 (she turned 36).

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