Introducing free Skype Meetings

Getting your friends to use skype is as easy getting them to switch to windows phone. I used to have skype to speak with friends abroad, but most have switched to Whatsapp... I now use whatsapp.

Re: Introducing free Skype Meetings

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Post by tgb » Tue, Jul 05, 2016, 5:27 PM UTC

dfar1 wrote: post #4

As stated... This is only useful for businesses using office 360. Getting your friends to use skype is as easy getting them to switch to windows phone. I used to have skype to speak with friends abroad, but most have switched to Whatsapp... I now use whatsapp.

I don't understand. The article specifically says it's not for office 365 users.

Re: Introducing free Skype Meetings

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Post by chromalife » Tue, Jul 05, 2016, 5:30 PM UTC

I started using linphone as an alternative to skype.

Re: Introducing free Skype Meetings

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Post by ElijahLynn » Tue, Jul 05, 2016, 5:41 PM UTC

What is the state of Skype on Chrome OS?

Re: Introducing free Skype Meetings

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Post by mcroft » Tue, Jul 05, 2016, 5:48 PM UTC

Apparently as an Office 365 user my experience is already "richer". I can't imagine how awful this could possibly be that my experience should be better.

I mostly resort to using Google Hangouts internally which is more reliable, easier and actually works in Linux. And is free.

Re: Introducing free Skype Meetings

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Post by Nullabillity » Tue, Jul 05, 2016, 5:49 PM UTC

dfar1 wrote: post #4

As stated... This is only useful for businesses using office 360. Getting your friends to use skype is as easy getting them to switch to windows phone. I used to have skype to speak with friends abroad, but most have switched to Whatsapp... I now use whatsapp.

In my experience most people tend to at least have it installed. But yeah, Hangouts has much better quality (especially screen sharing is night and day) and a much lower barrier to entry (no business email requirement, no client to install if your browser supports WebRTC, no region restriction, higher client limit).

Re: Introducing free Skype Meetings

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Post by xiaoma » Tue, Jul 05, 2016, 8:32 PM UTC

Nullabillity wrote: post #9

dfar1 wrote: post #4

As stated... This is only useful for businesses using office 360. Getting your friends to use skype is as easy getting them to switch to windows phone. I used to have skype to speak with friends abroad, but most have switched to Whatsapp... I now use whatsapp.

In my experience most people tend to at least have it installed. But yeah, Hangouts has much better quality (especially screen sharing is night and day) and a much lower barrier to entry (no business email requirement, no client to install if your browser supports WebRTC, no region restriction, higher client limit).

> no region restriction

Hangouts doesn't work in China, undeniably a major if not the major online market. Skype does.