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There's also Skype plugins for Pidgin: https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin/releases http://pidgin.im/ There's also one for Discord if you look around

Merry Crisis and a Happy New Fear

Happy New Year! Greetings from Hong Kong (GMT+8).

Today's the last day that Steam officially supports XP/Vista. If you want to use Steam in 2019 and later, don't forget to make a backup of the steam folder and use the "-noverifyfiles" command to stop Steam from auto-updating itself. You can still download games and etc.. The only thing that might happen is that you can no longer use the store and the friend feature might break soon as well..

2018 is almost over, 2019 is quickly approaching and you know what's gonna bring 2019? New version of Visual Studio and Intel Parallel Studio, which basically means new version of C++ Redistributable. Intel already released the new Intel C++ Redistributable and they are compatible with Windows XP, so a big fat "thank you" to Intel. As to M$, the Microsoft C++ Redistributable 2019 have not been released yet, as Visual Studio 2019 is still in beta, but I hope they'll support XP. https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/redistributable-libraries-for-intel-c-and-fortran-2019-compilers-for-windows

Are you all aware that Java 8 Update 192 superseded 191 on the same day? It's not clear to me why the older 191 is the one being served on the Java download page. https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8u191-relnotes-5032181.html https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8u192-relnotes-4479409.html

Tamris: Dude ... Lady? ... Do not express your qualms about being understood in a language that's not your native tongue. YOU'RE DOING FINE. First of all, we're dealing with a shared interest --- keeping Vista going on our PCs -- so we can all grasp the intent of someone's post here even if the words and syntax being used are not the best of formal English. Secondly, if you actually lived in an English speaking environment, surrounded by people who speak that language and none other, you'd quickly notice that most "native speakers" are not orators or authors. They wave their hands about, they say some words loudly and let others fade into silence, they throw meaningless phrases like "you know" and "I guess" and "you all" and "What about her emails" into conversations to fill up gaps, they mispronounce words that most high school graduates should be familiar with, their spoken vocabulary is small. Most English speakers are just ordinary folks, not expecting to do much with their use of the language, and -- surprise! -- not doing much with it either. Third. you're doing fine and you're surrounded by people doing fine. Nobody in this discussion thread or, as far as I've noticed, in any of the MSFN discussions I've followed, has used English here in any way whatsoever that would be noticed by ordinary Americans, Canadians, Britons, etc. YOU ARE ALL DOING FINE. Really, the only person here who needs feel some embarrassment about his impoverished language skills is me. I might get along talking to a five year old German kid or a two year old French infant, but we'd be limited to talk about liking sauerkraut and potatoes and taking naps rather than running personal computers. Let me say it again. YOU ARE ALL DOING FINE.