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Microsoft Killing off the Old Skype Client, Adding Built-in Call Recording

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday July 18 2018, @12:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the well-skype-me dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Ars Technica:

Coming over the summer, Microsoft is going to add integrated call recording (something that previously required third-party applications and a deprecated API), read receipts to show when a message recipient has read a message, and end-to-end encryption of text and audio chat using the Signal protocol.

Microsoft is also making Skype audio and video calls easier to integrate into streams such as those used on Mixer and Twitch. Support for the NDI API means that streaming applications such as Xsplit and OBS can use a Skype call as an audio/video source. That means they can be overlaid on games or other content, just as is already done with webcam input.

Will the changes come in time to save Skype's userbase?

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday July 18 2018, @03:08PM (1 child)

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday July 18 2018, @03:08PM (#708804) Journal

    Ubuntu is an acceptable alternative, but there's so much to choose from. https://distrowatch.com/ [distrowatch.com]

    Manjaro has been pretty high up / top of the list for some time now. https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=manjaro [distrowatch.com]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 20 2018, @11:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 20 2018, @11:25PM (#710157)

    That doesn't mean Manjaro is popular, only that they received X amount of clicks.

    Does that mean if I sit behind proxies and change my IP ever so often and reload the Fedora page over and over again for a few days that Fedora, the distribution is suddenly wildly popular?