Linux users now have access to a new version of Skype. In an announcement today, Skype revealed the availability of an alpha version of a new Skype for Linux client, saying "the launch ... ensures we ...

Microsoft is finally moving its latest Linux Skype client to beta and adding the ability to video-conference with other people using the latest model of Skype. Microsoft has taken its own sweet time ...

If you do not mind having a free non-open source Microsoft product on your Linux computer, the latest Skype for Linux release catches up to the Windows and Mac versions, providing most of the features ...

Microsoft hasn’t updated Skype for Linux since June 2014. In the nearly two years since then, Skype has been falling apart. The Linux client was already behind other platforms, and it’s only fallen ...

Skype has announced a brand-new version of Skype for Linux users today, as the Microsoft-owned VoIP client looks to play catch up with its brethren on other platforms. Many users of the existing Linux ...

A web camera is seen in front of a Skype logo in this photo illustration taken in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 26, 2015. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic Microsoft Corp. launched an alpha version of a new ...

Three months after unveiling an all-new Linux app, Skype has finally announced that it’s adding video-calling to the mix too. Though the Microsoft-owned communications service has existed on Linux for ...

A few years back, Linux's creator, Linus Torvalds said, "If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won." By that standard, Linux won last year when Microsoft started shipping a new ...

The Skype team today announced that anyone using a Chromebook or Chrome on Linux can visit web.skype.com to make one-to-one and group voice calls on top of the messaging features they get today. The ...

When Microsoft bought Skype just a little over a year ago, Linux fans far and wide feared the worst for Skype for Linux. After all, Redmond has a long history of less-than-friendly behavior toward ...

A new Skype for Linux client is now available as an alpha. The Skype client for Linux had been long abandoned—it’s stuck on version 4.3, compared to version 7 on Windows—but Microsoft has now ...