Skype for Linux. It's too early to bury me

Absorption of Skype (the most popular VoIP application in the world) was perceived by powerful Microsoft as the beginning of the end, or even the end itself for the Linux client. Comments for this event gene. MS Director Steve Ballmer didn’t make the situation much clearer, the comment itself is seventh water on the jelly:

“We will support the rest of the platforms, as this is of fundamental importance for the task of universal communication, whether you are interested in this or not.”
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From that moment on, believe it or not, exactly a year has passed. Since then, one minority update has been released for Skype for Linux, during the same time period, users of the Windows version could be updated up to 17 times, if they did not miss a single update.

Now the development team can be seen on the official application support forum, they lit up here and there clarifying and clarifying. Their always laconic answers look uncertain and evasive, but by turning to an optimist inside us you can see a brighter future for the Linux version than we imagined:

“The development has not stopped. We are still working on the next update. While it is not even possible to estimate the time of release of the next version, it will be when it comes. “

Still, Skype for Linux is not dead yet, it’s just in a coma.

Source: OMG! Ubuntu!