Skype4B was always just a renamed version of the very old Microsoft Lync software which works totally differently to Skype regular (which was originally a separate company later purchased by MS).The software is 'Skype' by brand name only, and has nothing to do with regular Skype which already works on Linux.It's annoying, but I am almost certain MS will never make Skype4B available on Linux.Here is my latest advice about running Skype4B aka Lync on Linux: