Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand

Re:Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand by djsumdog on Thursday May 10, 2018 @11:28AM (#17039723)

I use Linux as my native OS at my current shop and thought "Well they use Skype for Business and there's a new Skype for Linux client" .. but nope. Just as stated in this thread, it's a totally different protocol that's part of their Lync product.

I ended up getting a license for Sky, a 3rd party commercial Skype for Business client for Linux. It's pretty decent for what it is, but I could have just installed a Windows VM, used VNC, shared the VNC session and gotten the same thing.

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Re:Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand by StringyBob on Friday May 11, 2018 @02:27AM (#17045331)

Used to be the case that if a mac or Linux user connected, the call quality degraded for everyone on the call. Don't know if improved...

http://blog.schertz.name/2016/06/skype-for-business-vbss-upd...

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Re:Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand by sloxy on Thursday May 10, 2018 @12:01PM (#17040082)

> but I could have just installed a Windows VM, used VNC, shared the VNC session and gotten the same thing

I'm pretty sure there would be a noticeable(couple of seconds) lag between both incoming & outgoing audio to the VM making smooth flowing conversation near to impossible.

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Re:Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand by djsumdog on Thursday May 10, 2018 @12:05PM (#17040128)

At my old job I had this setup for WebEx. I did voice over a standard phone, so only video went over x11vnc -> vnc client in Windows VM -> WebEx. It worked pretty well; way better than Sky (Linux Skype for Business client) which is just laggy as hell.

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Re:Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand by g8oz on Thursday May 10, 2018 @12:37PM (#17040463)

On Linux Google Meet using Chrome is really good in my experience.

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