While no announcements have been made, we started to suspect Facebook and Skype were no longer quite so close in 2013, after Facebook introduced a voice calling option that used Facebook's technology.īut the real rupture appears to have happened a few months back. Mark Zuckerberg said at the time that he and then-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer were "really aligned on this."īut now, with the launch of video calling in Facebook Messenger for iPhone and Android, there's no longer any doubt: Facebook and Skype have broken up, and Skype seems to be the one who was dumped. Take, for example, Facebook and Microsoft's Skype.īack in 2011, they were the happiest of couples, telling everybody how they were working together to make video calling in Facebook Messenger a reality.
Social media can make a relationship a lot more complicated. In this release, we are enabling Skype users to reach even more of their friends and family.Here's what Facebook's Skype integration looked like at its 2011 launch. Today we have released a Beta version of Skype 5.11 for Windows. Here’s what Skype had to say about this new feature: Want to give it a spin? Download Skype beta Build: 5.11.0.102 So unless you really really want to give this a try, it is always advised to stay for a stable release. But mind it, this feature is currently available on Skype Build: 5.11.0.102 beta. So what you’ll be getting is all your Messenger contacts along with your existing Skype contacts. Well, the integration is pretty straight forward and it’s all about ‘merging’ of your Microsoft Account with your Skype Account. After Skype app mistakenly getting its way inside the Windows Update Service recently, this new feature brings back some good news of Skype and Microsoft Services integration capabilities. Skype and Microsoft, the story continues. Also, Skype is to release the ‘Metro’ or ‘Windows 8’ version of Skype on 26th October.
The upgrade can now be installed via Skype Upgrade or simply by downloading the latest version from their site.
Today(24th October 2012) Skype made the following beta features available to all users via a major update which upgrades the build for Skype for Windows to 6.0.0.120 and Skype for Mac to 6.
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