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Microsoft's purchase of Skype hit the headlines quite some time ago and with the acquisition triggered minimal changes to the somewhat popular utility. The Microsoft site now sports its own Skype Home Page but users haven't seen much changes in the application itself. With news that Microsoft switched to headless Linux servers to support the Skype network, will any improvements or innovations finally arrive?
It's heartening to know that Microsoft is implementing Linux boxes rather than peer-to-peer client machines. The engineers and sysads must be hard at work preparing Skype for Windows 8 and Windows 8 tablets (and hopefully for newer versions of Android as well). In the meantime, it's more likely a good idea to update currently installed Skype versions. These updates are pretty few and far between though a recent online update did arrive (after more than 6 months of running the same Skype release) for my Windows 7 machine. The update was fast and harmless and didn't even require users to log back in using their Skype names.
Now if only the same updates are available for Linux releases. Microsoft probably has a bigger picture in mind when they acquired Skype and hopefully won't exclude Linux users like myself. The openSUSE release of Skype works very well though the Ubuntu release doesn't seem to be nearly as stable on a recent Ubuntu 12.04 release (I've experienced at least one crash while running Skype on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS).
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