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Old 05-11-2011, 06:31 PM   #1
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LXer: Microsoft devours Skype


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Skype has been purchased by Microsoft, for $8.5 Billion. I have used Skype for years on Linux, even though Skype treated their Linux client as something like a red-headed step-child. Features like video chat were always included in the Linux client long after they were in the Windows version, bug fixes were slow, stuff like that. But, and here's the biggest thing: It worked.

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Old 05-12-2011, 08:43 AM   #2
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Well, it didn't work so well for me, in fact it crashed pretty often, and sometimes didn't even work at all.

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