Web version of Skype can not longer be accessed using the Firefox browser

I see a terrifying problem with this approach. It's like the Microsoft strategy of EEE. They exterminate Firefox - the last non-chromium browser. And if it's become a tendency, we will wallow in monobrowser culture dark age again.

It's not obvious for everyone, but Google started to byte FF. I just can't use google search in Firefox properly, they force me to train their artificial intelligence on each search. Google sites are not locked to chrome-based browsers yet, but they work significantly worse, especially youtube on a mediocre machine.

But in reality, Firefox is the much faster browser. I develop very large webgl web assembly unity game (30Mb of code), and Firefox handles with such burden much better, than chrome.

It's like opera crush. To be compatible with the web, they forced to be compatible with chrome bugs and hacks. After a long time mimicking to a Chrome-based browser, they surrendered to darkness and joined the swarm.

Now the last standing browser is under attack of the giant corporation. If we will not protest, they just swallow us and put onto the glossy walled garden.

Is it? It's not a great software but doesn't appear overly buggy or unmaintained compared to other office products. Office products and browser compatability are always an issue.

The enterprise version isn't production ready for serious use. $FORTUNE_500 where I'm at really wanted to make it work - I suppose we pay for it on a per-seat basis along with the Office 365 product - but client disconnects with >100 users for an internal webinar on our internal network resulted in an embarassingly broken presentation and a decision to bail off to a different vendor's product.

I think this maybe more related to that Microsoft is actually doing a massive rework of Skype, dumping the old Lync infrastructure and front end, and moving to their "teams" implementation.

In doing so they are dumping a lot of what they consider to be legacy support. With the advent and popularity of mobile apps, users today are seemingly fine with being told their their services are only available through this one channel.

So why take on the burden and effort to support something most people don't seem to care about (though they should) for what boils down to less than 2% of the user base?

This new, "we dictate to you, massive, breaking changes, and features you don't have control" mentality is a drastic change in behavior at Microsoft, Their adaptability, and building tools that worked on damn near everything, is what allowed them to dominate the office OS, this new change may play a part in them reinventing themselves and allow them to become more agile. But I can tell you, its pissing a lot of people off, from an administration perspective, their OS, and software are becoming a nightmare to manage when not used as they dictate.

Sadly though, currently there is no alternatives, Google's G suite might as well be DOA, they've let their promising online office suite wither on the vine. IBM never could get their product off the ground.

Aside from cobbling together multiple disconnected 3rd services, its really difficult to do anything but just site back and let them dictate terms.

There are multiple reports of it working by simply spoofing your user agent to chrome https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/apu2u6/, which makes this even more worrying.