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Let met know when Apple allows other Os's can use Imessage. That is when they get it fixed. I don't currently use any Apple products, but even I can tell there is a difference between a messaging system that was built right from the start to be locked out of its competitor's OS and one which originally was platform independent, but had that feature removed. To use a simple car analogy, if I bought a car knowing from the start it only ran on fuel brand X, so be it. If I bought a car which could run on all types of fuel, and during routine maintenance at the shop they changed a part so that it only ran on fuel brand Y, I would be mightily pissed. Surely you can appreciate the difference.

• Mac Os X 10.5 Upgrade To Lion. Fix Skype For Mac

The real problem is going to be those Skype users with long-term subscription plans. They may have to invest in VMWare Fusion, which allows infidel operating systems, including any version of Windows, to be run in 'sandboxes' on OS X. You can then install a Windows version of Skype on the sandboxed OS. VMWare only runs on Intel-based Macs.

This issue only affects the few PPC Mac Users, or the even smaller number of 10.5 Users with Intel Macs. And the latter can Upgrade their OS to a 'supported' (by Skype) version. Because we're really, really tired of software that uselessly, needlessly, requires the 'latest and greatest' operating system for no good reason at all, that's why. If devs need a feature in a new OS - for instance, let's say you produce something that works with Mavericks (10.9) new multiple screen features, and that's its purpose in life. Ok, then the user needs Mavericks and it's perfectly reasonable for you to say 'gotta have it, period.'

But, say, if you have something as vanilla as an image processi. And hey, developers.

What's the deal with no true peer to peer video comm app without third party dependencies? Ask the OS what the WAN IP is, email the bloody thing to your contact, contact enters same on other end, make connection. Would work fine for a very, very large number of people. Surely the video mavens out there can manage this? Video's not magic, it's just a bloody stream of packets like everything else. NAT, firewalls and other reasons render the approach of simply passing the WAN IP out-of-band infeasible. This will not work for a.

So, my gf had to update her Mac OS (granted, 5-6 years old Mac) just so that we could chat on Skype. It's not about having updates forever. She didn't want a single update.

Hell, I don't want a single update either. If my shit works, it works, leave it be. I'm not even sure what Skype updates add except ads and a module that increases memory consumption. (I'm half-kidding; I truly don't know what those updates give me, but I don't really think it's just to make me use more RAM.) tldr: I don't want a fuck.

Well, you get what you pay for I guess. But if Skype has ambitions to replace ordinary telephony, it needs to adopt some of the same attitudes. It would never be acceptable for your phone company to suddenly cut you off without warning and tell you to buy a new phone. They should have a minimum six month period in which they warn that you will need to upgrade.

Mac OS 10.5 is the last version running on PowerPC; if you have an older iMac or Mac Mini then it is not that cheap to upgrade to an Intel one, e. Skype is only partially peer to peer now. Originally, the skype network used 'super nodes' to route connections when both parties were behind NAT (without the port forwarded) and could not open a direct connection to each other.

Microsoft replaced these super nodes with dedicated servers when they bought skype, in order to lift the bandwidth constraints and increase the call quality for these routed connections. However, On command (of the NSA or other LEAs), you'll find all of your connections routed via a microsoft server for the purpose of wire tapping. Things are very different in the Mac world. Many Mac users buy for the long term.

And by 'long term', we're talking well over a decade. Buying a $2000 or more Mac isn't like buying a $400 Windows PC or a $150 Chromebook. Macs aren't seen as disposable computers that'll fall apart and be thrown out after only a year or two. They're built to last, the people who buy them expect them to last, and there's no reason why software that already runs on them shouldn't continue to run on them for years to come. Six or seven years is a very long time in the land of Windows, I will give you that. But six or seven years is half of the expected usable lifespan of a typical Mac. It might be the case that the mac hardware upgrade cycle is that much longer(though given how much of Apple's market is laptops, which take more of a beating, and how long killing XP by attrition is taking, that isn't certain: your basic wintel desktop is cheap and nasty but also fairly durable); but the OS support situation has been markedly faster paced and more unforgiving than on the PC side for quite some time now.

Your Core 2 Duo imac 5,1 or 6,1 (halfway through its 'expected usable lifespan') is cu. Yes, the posted on their skype.com blog that old versions would be discontinued in the ambiguous future date. It applied to all platforms. A few tech news sites picked up on it, but nothing major.

A post on their company blog is vastly different from notifying customers (especially corporate customers) that their paid service is going to become inaccessible. People pay for the service, and shutting out older clients should have much more notification.

A proper response would be to sending out an email to ALL active accounts and their billing addresses notifying them of all the versions that were being discontinued due to the change. This would allow businesses (where software is sometimes tightly controlled) adequate notice to update all the machines and conference rooms. It would also allow users (who are now stranded) an opportunity to report that there are no viable upgrade paths, and a chance to use the balance of their accounts. Instead it has become a PR nightmare.

I'm running Mavericks on a Late 2008 Macbook 13' Unibody and I have to say it's not significantly better than Snow Leopard. I remeber when I upgraded my iBook G4 to Tiger it ran much better than it had ever before.

When I went to Leopard it actually ran slightly slower until I optimized the OS for it. I later obtained the 2008 Macbook and when I upgraded it to Snow Leopard it ran like a scalded dog. I'd say it was at least a third again faster than Leopard.

Upgrade to Lion seemed sluggish at first but. Apple does not support their own 2 year old OSes, I have to upgrade my Mac to a more often than not crappier OS just to get things like Xcode running again and sometimes I even have to buy a new Mac because the old one is arbitrarily locked out from a software upgrade. So why should Skype's developers care about an ancient version of OS X?

Oh, I know, because they are Microsoft, and we love to bash them here! I call bullshit on your lies. Any Mac on the list below (or later) runs Mountain Lion, Mavericks and (soon) Yosemite. If you are running something like the 2007 Mac mini (which has support deprecated) then you will have to upgrade to run Mountain Lion or later. Almost all Macs produced in the last 7 years runs current software - Xserve which is no longer produced is an obvious exception. Ecs ata 100 motherboard sound driver for mac.

Supported hardware: iMac (Mid 2007 or newer) MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer) MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer) MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer) Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer) Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer) Xserve (Early 2009) And each recent version of OS X has been far better than Snow Leopard and free as well. You've asserted that Apple support hardware going back a few years. This has absolutely nothing to do with the OS version itself being unsupported, as the post you attempted to discredit referred to. If Apple doesn't support OS X 10.5, why should Microsoft?

So, your model is from 2007, right? All of the 2009 and later ones support Mavericks, and the 2008 ones could use a 64-bit boot loader. 7, nearly 8, years is a good run for a laptop, particular one aimed at non-professionals. Even so, yeah, compared to most Macs, you kinda got screwed, but that was sorta to be expected, given that they were going through the Intel and 64-bit transitions back-to-back. I more or less kept a death grip on my ancient PowerBook when all of that stuff started, upgraded to a last-m. I was using the last pre-MS version of the client, which had the 'ring all speakers' option.

I have several sound devices in my computer, and when my headphones are plugged in, they on their own don't ring loud enough to hear an incoming call. Luckily my HDMI monitor has speakers that don't get any use, except that Skype could make them ring with the 'ring all speakers' option. They were loud enough to hear calls. That was until about an hour ago.

My client just stopped working, booted me off the network, and after messing with it for a while, I finally got the message that my Skype version is too old, and that I either get the new crippled client, or I can't Skype at all. Many people have petitioned to have the 'ring all speakers' re-implemented.

It worked great. But Microsoft's answer has been: Fuck you, we will never do that. Stop pleading, we don't care. It didn't bother me too much until today. I just thought I'd stick with version 5.10.116 forever. So thanks, Skype, for making my life shittier today.

Boy am I happy I pre-paid a year of unlimited Skype Out! Many people have petitioned to have the 'ring all speakers' re-implemented. There is a feature in some versions of MacOS X that allow you to create a logical Multi-Output Device for audio playback. The documentation says: 'If you have several stereo output devices, you can have audio play through all of them by creating a multi-output device.' You can create a Multi-Output Device in Audio MIDI Setup.app if the feature exists in your OS. Then you could try setting the new device as the sound effects output in: System Preferences:Sound:Sound Effects:Play sound effects through. Skype has been a continues stream of disappointments over the last few years.

First they started with this policy of taking away your credits if you haven't used them in a few years. They are still kind enough to let you 'reactivate' them. This is like a bank taking your savings because you haven't used them in a while, but allowing you to get them back by dropping. Its immoral and should be illegal. Recently they also blocked access from the linux skype client 4.2.0.11 without any warning whatsoever, suddenly you just can't connect. And after updating to the latest version (4.3.0.37), it crashes every time. Turns out you have to do some changes to the sqlite database that holds your history (couldn't they do that automatically?).

Unfortunately opensource IM isn't much better. With so many usability issues, slow development (thinking about pidgin and gajim), and now Google turning their back on openness by disabling XMPP federation, the landscape of opensource IM looks gloomy. A week or so ago I recieved an email from microsoft telling me I needed to upgrade Skype on my smart phone; and that the version I was using would no longer be supported. I attempted to upgrade, only to find that the new version is too large to download and install on my phone as an upgrade.

I then uninstalled the old version, and still didn't have enough space. My solution at that point was to just stop using Skype. That probably wasn't what Microsoft was aiming for, but it did change my behavior.

Thanks, guys. You have to upgrade to 4.3.0.37 on Linux to obtain connections. They've cut off earlier versions. This is the sort simple minded behavior that seriously limits the value of Skype. I received no warning. Suddenly Skype stops working and my subscriber access is cut off.

Mac Os X 10.5 Upgrade To Lion. Fix Skype For Mac

I find this out just as an important phone conference is getting underway. When it works (which aside from this is all the time) Skype is absolutely great, even on Linux.

$30-ish a year for unlimited call termination in North America and caller id that shows my regular cell phone, text messages (again with correct ID) — it's wonderful. But interfering with service by cutting off anything older than the most recent clients is just ridiculous. Your post makes me sad. I have been adding -ignore skype to my package manager update commands since version 4.3 requires you to have pulseaudio.

I game on my machine and pulseaudio causes issues in multiple games, so I'm not about to install that. Especially since pulseaudio is such a pain when it comes to starting on its own. I'll stick with ALSA. I guess that means I'm going to have to uninstall skype.

Will use the tablet until I can convince people to use another solution. So basically, damn y. Are you still using Skype 4.0.0.8 this week? It was just in the last two days that they stopped allowing older versions to connect. As another post in this reply chain mentioned, 4.3's requirement of pulseaudio kept me on 4.2 up until yesterday, too.

Now I've had to move to 4.3 so I can get text messaging from my contacts, but I'm SOL on audio - not just voice, but even audio alerts when new messages come in, because it all gets funneled through the nonfunctional pulseaudio driver. Which brings us to a. You have to upgrade to 4.3.0.37 on Linux to obtain connections. They've cut off earlier versions. Yeah, tell me about it. I have some.hardware. Skype devices (embedded linux at the heart of them) that Microsoft has cut off.

Several $250 video phones, now e-waste. It would be nice if the vendor upgraded them to a current version, but I realize that's a major engineering effort with the changes in Skype from v2 to v4, and it's a discontinued hardware model year. I'm more surprised that the vendor did not ha. That's just the tip of iceberg. M$ cutoff access to my Win 7 version of skype 6.6,0.106. Last updated 6/13/2013!

I don't appreciate relativity simple applications requiring a constant stream of updates. It makes me think it's some sort of NSA/Gov spyware. It's better to just remove it and forget about them, too much hassle for little return value. Write them off and move on.

Oracle Java is quickly approaching negative return threshold and may soon join skype in my list of unstable/unreliable applica.