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The death of Skype 7 (or Skype classic) has been delayed, following "customer feedback", according to Microsoft.
Microsoft originally announced on July 16 that classic Skype would be discontinued on Sept. 1, 2018 and encouraged users to upgrade to version 8.0. After many lamented the "upgrade" and clogged up the comments on the original discontinuation blog post, Microsoft have decided to continue supporting Skype 7 for "some time".
The message that was left on the original post, as reported by Microsoft blog Thurrott, was simple: "Thanks for all your comments - we are listening." A Microsoft spokesperson told CNET they have nothing more to share beyond the blog post at this time.
[...] It appears, for now, that Skype classic will continue being supported -- at least until Microsoft can transplant much-loved features to its updated version.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday August 09 2018, @09:56PM (3 children)
Sorry, forgot to say: dual boot! Do work in Linux, play in Windows.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 13 2018, @01:35PM (2 children)
> dual-boot
I used to do this. It doesn't really work. The overhead of switching will keep you in one OS. Is playing games worth shutting all your work down and rebooting (and having to take action on reboot, to get Windows, then setting it all back up when you are done)? What about when Windows trashes your bootloader?
The solution is have them both running at the same time, in virtual machines, with GPU pass-through (dedicated video card for each). This way, everything that can work in Linux, you do in Linux. For everything that only works in Windows, you use Windows.. and it is a button press away.
This is also great as it makes testing cross-platform code really easy :)
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday August 13 2018, @04:43PM (1 child)
Setting all what back up? I just have a GRUB menu to pick one or the other. The most they interfere with each other is occasionally Windows insists on scanning my shared partition. Although a couple time I've had said partition (NTFS) get borked up enough that Linux gives me a "yeah I dunno man; guess you'd better let Windows fix this" popup when trying to mount it, I'm not sure who to blame that on.
That's why you install the Linux partition after the Windows.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday August 13 2018, @04:47PM
Although to be fair I have Windows 8.1. I bought the tower 2-3 weeks before Windows 10 came out, and am happy I did.
The "fast startup" pseudo-shutdown-that's-actually-a-suspend is a thing you can disable so Windows just shuts down normally. Installing GRUB with UEFI wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"