Microsoft Fixes Bugs in Skype for Linux (softpedia.com) 89
After neglecting Linux's Skype client for years, Microsoft released a new app of Skype for Linux in July, giving comfort to millions of users. The app, however, had a fair share of bugs. Microsoft today has updated the app to iron out those bugs, and introduced a handful of interesting options. An anonymous reader writes: There were plenty of users who complained that Skype for Linux was reconnecting automatically when not using the app for a certain amount of time and Microsoft has already acknowledged the bug. This new version fixes the problem, so everything should work correctly after updating. Additionally, Skype for Linux 1.7 introduces a new grid layout of the group calls, but also fixes the standard behavior of unread messages. According to Microsoft, this means that "when opening chat with unread messages, the view will focus on the first unread message and as you scroll, messages will be marked as read."
SubjectsInCommentsAreStupidCauseTheSubjectIsTFA (Score:1)
Bye Skype. If the US govt. really wanted my trade secrets they should have done a better job at catering to the most savvy and thus valuable user base.
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Because MS want's to attract developers to it's Azure cloud services.
Many such "cloud" developers are using Mac or Linux. After all they need to be developing stuff that will run on Linux cloud servers. Be it from AWS, Google, MS, whoever.
So it makes sense to make such developers happy by providing things like Skype for the platforms they use.
It's the same reason MS created the open source and cross platform MS Visual Studio Code IDE. The same reason they are making sure node.js works with their open source
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Mind you Visual Studio Code is a wonderful thing. It's the first software from MS I have been using on a regular basis for real work ever.
For you maybe. Totally unusable in my case.
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So your theory is that no useful software can exists if not done with Visual Studio ?
Seriously, I doubt that your router or your TV will ever boot in that case...
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For you maybe. Totally unusable in my case.
What an uninformative way to completely dismiss anything, equally applicable to whatever it is you use. Firstly "totally unusable" is likely hyperbole and given that it is multiplatform (Windows, OS X, Linux - with deb and rpm packages) open source [github.com] and also has an interface for extensions [visualstudio.com] I'm wondering what exactly the problem is here. What is your use case in which it is "totally unusable"? Or is it just because it's made by Microsoft?
If I'm doing quick edits I most often use vi (was never an emacs fan) bu
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The problem I have with a lot of these IDEs and fancy editors is they try to do too much for you, while simultaneously having a terrible editing interface. Key bindings are crap compared to the modal beauty of vim. It's super-annoying to have a fuzzy selector via Shift+arrow or Shift+Ctrl+Arrow. Deleting an entire line might be possible through some weird binding, but in vim it's simply dd (or in my case kk, but that's irrelevant). I can edit everything inside quotations with ci". I'm sure that, with some t
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I do mostly Linux embedded software and I like to develop directly on the remote targets that don't have a screen. In this context Visual Code Studio is unusable as virtually any graphic IDE.
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I do mostly Linux embedded software and I like to develop directly on the remote targets that don't have a screen. In this context Visual Code Studio is unusable as virtually any graphic IDE.
Well yes, so that's a pretty massive caveat that you failed to mention. It's blindingly obvious that any graphical IDE is going to be totally unusable if you don't have a GUI.
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Because MS want's to attract developers to it's Azure cloud services.
Impressive that you managed to go through school without understanding and learning something that basic.
Ok, what's the catch? (Score:3, Insightful)
Ok, what's the catch? Why would MS spend even one man-hour working on this thing? MS working on software for Android makes sense because it has a huge marketshare, and same with stuff like MS Office for Mac (not huge marketshare, but enough to make it worth the investment for them). But Linux has a minuscule market share, which I admit as a Linux proponent, so what's MS's real plan here? They never do anything on non-MS platforms without a really good (and likely nefarious) reason.
Re: Ok, what's the catch? (Score:2)
Porting code between bad (apple) and Linux is a lot easier than porting from Windows to Apple.
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I don't believe that Google Hangouts requires an existing phone number. I signed my son up for a phone number before purchasing a Project Fi/Nexus phone, and it didn't ask me to pay for a phone number, or even provide an existing one.
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Well the Win7 thing makes sense: MS has been doing everything it can to force Win7 users to "upgrade" to Win10, so abandoning non-Win10 Skype versions is consistent with their prior behavior there.
Linux is different; it doesn't matter how many users each platform has, MS doesn't have any kind of control over Linux the way it does with Win7 and its update mechanism, and Linux users aren't invested in the MS ecosystem the way Win7 users are, so the same tactics wouldn't work.
I'm just questioning why they're b
Re:Ok, what's the catch? (Score:5, Insightful)
They also ported Powershell to Linux
My best wild ass guess is that they themselves are using it more and need common tools across OS's
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I gave Powershell (on Windows) a look in the interest of objectivity. It looks like it is more sophisticated than say, Bash and can do more, but holy crap is it unintuitive and clunky about the way it does it.
I'll probably get hosed for saying this, but if you need anything above DOS commands or bash, python or (less so) perl are still where it's at, whether you're on Windows or Linux.
-ph
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I do Powershell stuff for Exchange quite often as part of my job, and no disagreement. It is unintuitive at times and quite clunky, but it is trying to be Visual Studio on the command line (running against remote servers too).
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That UID is not especially "low"...
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Because they are transitioning from being a software company to being a data company. That's why Windows 10 is free* and they grab so much (and push so much) data on customers in W10.
* If you thought Windows 10 was no longer free, see https://www.microsoft.com/en-u... [microsoft.com]
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* If you thought Windows 10 was no longer free,
Windows 10 was never free, in any sense of the word.
Re:Ok, what's the catch? (Score:4, Interesting)
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Because probably a lot of
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Here is your answer:
Windows 10 has been installed on this computer.
To restore this computer to a usable state,
please send 3 Bitcoin to Microsoft.
In order to do this, Microsoft must get you to first install some Microsoft software as a beach head.
Or try . .
Clippy: It looks like you're trying to get useful work done. Would you like to install Windows 10?
To install Windows 10, do any of the following:
1. Click Yes, I want to install.
2. Click No, I do not want to
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It requires PulseAudio. I doubt this is a nefarious plan by MS, but it does annoy me, since I deinstalled PulseAudio after it caused problems.
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Not a big fan of SystemD, but I can tolerate it. I don't have an irrational hatred of PulseAudio either, but I've had applications playing no audio at all or playing laggy or choppy audio on three occasions and each time the problem went away after deinstalling PulseAudio. There really is something wrong with either PulseAudio itself or its integration with other components on this system (openSUSE KDE5).
Simple (Score:2)
Because of the reports filed by their most important customer: the NSA. The bugs were interfering with their warrantless surveillance work.
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Ok, what's the catch? Why would MS spend even one man-hour working on this thing?
MS hate Windows 10 so much they're planning to switch over to Linux internally.
Why is this on slashdot? (Score:3, Funny)
Re: Why is this on slashdot? (Score:4, Funny)
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Wait ... I thought *I* was the last one!
webrtc (Score:5, Informative)
Good comment. I have moved on to using WebRTC in Firefox or Chromium. It's easier for relatives and me, and it works just as well.
Telemetry? (Score:1)
I mean, why not? Don't just collect information about Windows users. Collect information about Linux too!
Does it come with... (Score:1)
Skype for Business still most important problem (Score:1)
Lack of a Linux client prevents deployment of the Office communication platform in business, since a Linux client is a significant requirement. In most moderately sized organisations, there will be Linux machines. Unless Microsoft can develop the competence to deliver a Linux client, it rules out deployment of their offering. While I'd hardly call Skype for Business a good piece of software, many of the alternatives are equally bad, usually worse. If Microsoft could sort out making their client cross platfo
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Not really sure why this was modded down.
Because the explanation didn't consist of any of the following:
Micro$oft
Embrace Extend Extinguish
Data mining
Good do see Microsoft supporting Linux (Score:2, Funny)
theres no need for this (Score:2, Informative)
meh this is a local version of the web.skype.com website
you're as good going to the website directly.. err you're better off going to the website - its always up to date.
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4.3 is the ancient, abandoned Skype for Linux which I'm still running. 1.7 is the new experimental version based on their webrtc client. Because 1.7 > 4.3, obviously.
sdgfdgh (Score:1)
Well at least I found out why it was so damned cold this morning.
Meh (Score:1)
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Microsoft! Fixes bugs! In Skype! For Linux! (Score:1)
Oh my god! What a beautiful day! Let us celebrate this!
Hah! Some update! (NOT!) (Score:1)
Version 4.3 of Skype for Linux (pre MS buyout) at least supports video and audio. MS has no sense of shame pushing an "updated" version of Skype for Linux with less functionality than the ancient version 4.3.0.37. "The more things change, the more things _____________________". You fill in the blanks.