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Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @07:50PM from the really-long-cardboard-tube dept.

obarthelemy writes "Skype having just been borged, now may be a good time to hedge our bets and look for a replacement. I'm *not* looking for something that interfaces with POTS, but just a simple PC-to-PC video chat tool that is very easy to configure and use, reliable, multiplatform (my family has Windows, Linux, MacOS; iOS and Android would be nice extras), and has good video/voice quality. We're almost only skyping with each other. What would you recommend?"

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Chatroulette or Omegle, obviously. (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @07:53PM (#36234202)

Clearly, you want to be using Chatroulette or Omegle.

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What about Skype? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @08:03PM (#36234326)

I hear Skype does everything you want. Perhaps you are dissastisfied with it because your microphone only recognizes oral communication and is unable to understand when you talk out your ass.

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You have it all wrong (Score:4, Funny)

by Troke ( 1612099 ) writes: on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @08:09PM (#36234390)

This is the perfect excuse to stop talking to your family.

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Re:Skype (Score:4, Funny)

by larry bagina ( 561269 ) writes: on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @08:09PM (#36234392) Journal

How about QDOS? They bought it from Tim Paterson, renamed it, upgraded it over the next 20 years, added a GUI, then released Windows ME. Anybody who used Windows ME was screwed pretty hard.

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Re:Oh noes, Microsoft! End of world! (Score:3, Funny)

by concord ( 198387 ) writes: on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @08:54PM (#36234790) Homepage

Microsoft is no angel, but they aren't the devil either.
Yeah, I mean ... at least they're not Apple.

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