Microsoft Rolls Out New Skype for Web; Does Not Support Firefox, Safari, and Opera (venturebeat.com)

Microsoft this week revamped Skype's browser-based client with a slew of new features. From a report: The Seattle company this week announced the rollout of a major Skype for Web update, which introduces high-definition video calling, a redesigned notifications panels, a revamped media gallery, and more. It's available on any PC running Windows 10 and Mac OS X 10.12 or higher with the latest versions of Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. The bulk of the new capabilities debuted in preview last October, but they're available widely starting this week. Skype for Web does not support Safari, Firefox, and Opera browsers, Microsoft has confirmed.

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Chrome is the new IE

[sremick]

This article warrants reposting here:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/...

Issue about this on webcompat

[tepples]

I went to file this on webcompat.com, but it looks like it's already been filed as #27392.
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Re:Consider it innovation

[Anonymous Coward]

Skype for Business was a rebranding of Lync. Teams is more or less a soft-boiled rewrite of the same concept, as an Electron application. An interesting side effect of this is that it (Teams) can be fairly easily repackaged to run on Linux. In my eyes, Skype died as a potential productivity tool when it became impossible to show more than ~7-8 messages on a 1080p monitor due to space waste of its non-configurable "chat bubbles". I abandoned it completely when they started breaking compatibility with the still-somewhat-tolerable Linux client (v.4.something). Not a huge fan of teams either, primarily because I simply do not like space-wasting, non-configurable UIs. Another huge issue is that Teams is 100% dependent on an active internet connection; you cannot use it offline.