Why won't skype just die already?!
Web version of Skype can not longer be accessed using the Firefox browser
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Re: Web version of Skype can not longer be accessed using the Firefox browser
#12I 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…
What's wrong with G Suite? I know a couple companies that use it, and it seems pretty handy. I mean, there's still Windows and MS Office that Google doesn't compete with, but hangouts/gmail/google calendar all worked well when I was at a company that used them.
Re: Web version of Skype can not longer be accessed using the Firefox browser
#13There 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.
It might be that Microsoft doesn't do testing/QA on Firefox, and thus they don't want to be responsible for any issues that occur.
Re: Web version of Skype can not longer be accessed using the Firefox browser
#14What does Firefox lack? I was under the impression that all of Skype's features could be written in modern HTML and JavaScript. After all, isn't that what Google Hangouts does?
Re: Web version of Skype can not longer be accessed using the Firefox browser
#15What does Firefox lack? I was under the impression that all of Skype's features could be written in modern HTML and JavaScript. After all, isn't that what Google Hangouts does?
Hangouts doesn't need a plugin anymore?
Re: Web version of Skype can not longer be accessed using the Firefox browser
#16There 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.
This is exactly what happened with the Skype desktop client. I was able to get another year out of Skype for my grandmother's PPC Leopard based Mac by simple nullrouting ui.skype.com.
Re: Web version of Skype can not longer be accessed using the Firefox browser
#17I 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…
What's wrong with G Suite? I know a couple companies that use it, and it seems pretty handy. I mean, there's still Windows and MS Office that Google doesn't compete with, but hangouts/gmail/google calendar all worked well when I was at a company that used them.
I use to be a large advocate of gsuite, back in the days of it being google apps. I still support several non-profits that still use their free organization tier.
But the fact is, google hasn't kept pace at all, and it largely feels like an abandoned product.
If you spend sometime comparing the functionality, features, and UI of office 365 to Gsuite, it's nearly impossible to recommend google over them at this point.
The fact that microsoft throws in the complete office suite for desktop, as well as a really solid web product at the same price as google is another thing that makes it hard to recommend them.
I really hope that google, decides to invest more in this product, but until they do, I can't recommend them anymore.