Is this the full rust rewrite everyone is talking about?

An important sidenote is “Skype for Business” has nothing to do with Skype MSFT acquired. It’s just brand reuse to cover up their shitty product. What that product is? Good old MSN Messenger’s on-prem sister i.e. ms lync. In fact Skype for business main .exe is still lync.exe . This was acceptable in early 2000s. Now those outdated ui elements, confused windows and scrambled chat history, ignoring the offline messages after the first one. It’s wonky as hell to use in this day and age. At least there are some decent clients for open source platforms like matrix, mattermost, zulip etc. MS teams, MS Skype, MS anything is crap as always.

Good to hear. winboat seems to both target and achieve a more polished setup and use.

Even running office on wine is a good option if your target version has somewhat good wine compatibility.

There’s also winapps you can use to run it in a native windows environment in some way (another machine tucked away somewhere, in a VM etc.) and have it acting like a native app over RDP and even have integrations with file manager like file associations.

Instead of having a full desktop view in a remote desktop session, you’ll get each window in a separate window that’ll act like any other singular app. I used it when I had to use ms office and some other windows only app when I had a secondary PC that had to have windows anyway in a separate office in the same building.

It’s the first time I’ve ever heard of winboat and i feel like they are pretty much equivalent in what they do.

I don’t know how feasible for you to use an immediate mode GUI library but imgui came to my mind as soon as i read the post. However it’s written in C++ instead of C.

I never tried the C bindings but it seems to have a couple of options including cimgui to use imgui in a C project.

Maybe it’s worth a shot if you want something that’s proven to be lightweight and battle tested (I mean the main imgui project for this).

Yes you can but be careful to not turn into a murderer on the way.