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Kind of - Skype. Although it was released before MS purchased the company and since then it hasn't been maintained very well.
by qume 11y ago
Kind of - Skype. Although it was released before MS purchased the company and since then it hasn't been maintained very well.
- smacktoward 11y agoSkype on Linux feels a lot more like "legacy product MS inherited and then ignored" than "hot new product under active development."
- npongratz 11y agoMaintained so poorly that we get this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11165568 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11165568
- rogerbinns 11y agoSkype on Linux seems to have different experiences for different people. For example it is rock solid for me, and always works well. I don't remember any crashes. But it also essentially never gets updated. I have colleagues on Windows, Mac and iOS where skype is getting updated, but it mostly seems to frustrate them by having an unpleasant user experience. Just today I was sharing my screen but they couldn't actually find it in the skype user interface! This is Microsoft's business to lose. But network effects mean you have to keep more of the audience satisfied because excluding people means they take themselves and those they interact with away to an alternative.
- gottam 11y agoSo basically SQL server on linux is supported until the project isn't fun to work on anymore which then it will be left to rot and eventually support dropped entirely.
- tracker1 11y agoI'd say it will stay as long as commercially viable, which it very much is... I'd imagine a lot of this effort was to get SQL services on azure closer to the metal than running on top of Windows. I don't think it's going anywhere for a while... and I rarely trust MS with anything cross platform.