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Thread ID: 117914 2011-05-10 14:42:00 The Death of Skype Cato (6936) PC World Chat
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1201134 2011-05-11 09:15:00 Please name one piece of MS software that runs natively on Linux. Multi platform is more than just Windows and Mac.

Why would you want software from MS to run on Linux?

A bit like asking for a PC to run everything regardless of hardware I suspect.
Snorkbox (15764)
1201135 2011-05-11 09:21:00 Why would you want software from MS to run on Linux?

A bit like asking for a PC to run everything regardless of hardware I suspect.
I wouldn't but was replying to Alex B saying how there was plenty of MS software that was multi-platform.
mikebartnz (21)
1201136 2011-05-11 09:31:00 So, what is the best free video alternative then if this likely to go the way posters suggest? Cptn Hotshot (3904)
1201137 2011-05-11 09:51:00 So, what is the best free video alternative then if this likely to go the way posters suggest?
I assume you mean A Skype alternative. If so look at post #11
mikebartnz (21)
1201138 2011-05-11 09:54:00 The point I would make is that a number of posters do not know for a fact what will happen to Skype and I would be among them. Snorkbox (15764)
1201139 2011-05-11 10:05:00 The point I would make is that a number of posters do not know for a fact what will happen to Skype and I would be among them.
Of course we don't but we can make a good assumption going by MS's past record and it's lack of love for Linux.
mikebartnz (21)
1201140 2011-05-11 10:11:00 Of course we don't but we can make a good assumption going by MS's past record and it's lack of love for Linux.

So why not wait and see then?
Snorkbox (15764)
1201141 2011-05-11 10:16:00 ^It's the top entry on reddit.

What a bunch of doom and gloom merchants, plenty of MS software is multi platform, mstsc/live messenger/office....I seem to have all these things on my mac.

I see it staying multi platform, if not becoming more so. IE integrating with PABX's etc, at the moment it's very hard to find a standard that everyone uses, I reckon with MS ownership this is very possible.
Well done!

Was it whisky or tinted lenses ? ;)
R2x1 (4628)
1201142 2011-05-11 10:24:00 So why not wait and see then?
You're no fun;)
mikebartnz (21)
1201143 2011-05-12 00:04:00 Hopefully Microsoft fix the dog of a user interface that Skype has. Fifthdawn (9467)
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