I think I'll just rain on your parade with a bit of irony: the Linux version of Skype is still stuck, after over two years, on version 2.2 beta.<br><br>Thanks Microsoft.<br><br>Lawrence<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Having been in this since kernel v.0.95 and seen the train wreck of Microsoft trying to hold off the inevitable, for them to cave this quickly and USE a Linux cluster as a core component is just a funny thing to me.<br><br>
And, yes, it is _QUITE_ a compliment!<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Matthew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simontek@gmail.com" target="_blank">simontek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Why? They realized linux was more efficient for their needs. I see it<br>
as a compliment.<br>
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On 5/4/12, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft.ars" target="_blank">http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft.ars</a><br>
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