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I wasn't suggesting that MS told them to do that. To my knowledge, this first time that Facebook has left the Web and launched a feature only available to speci

by cryptoz 15y ago

I wasn't suggesting that MS told them to do that. To my knowledge, this first time that Facebook has left the Web and launched a feature only available to specific OSs by way of desktop applications. Remember that this video chat is not a web page. It's a Microsoft (and Apple? I don't know) desktop application that integrates into their web page. I'm suggesting that Facebook is showing their alliance to Microsoft by ignoring some other OSs and launching Microsoft-powered features. If you include video chat as an integral part of Facebook, then you can no longer call Facebook a web site.

kenjackson 15y ago
Thanks. That wasn't clear from your earlier post (and I didn't know that this was a desktop app either).
- cryptoz 15y ago
  :) To be fair, G+'s Hangouts is also currently a desktop app (requires the Gtalk plugin I think). I suspect Google will move away from that and go towards a full web page. We'll see. This is all so exciting.
  - shoota 15y ago
    Yes but they at least provide the appropriate plugin for Linux users.
    - cryptoz 15y ago
      Yep! I was Hanging Out on Ubuntu with 6 friends on about day 2 of G+. Facebook doesn't even support my OS, so there's absolutely 0 chance I'll use their video chat.
contextfree 15y ago
Did Google show their alliance to Microsoft when they released Chrome for Windows well ahead of other platforms?