Today Microsoft has announced and released a beta version of the much anticipated Skype app for Windows Phone. The final version of the app will be available in April of this year. The app is described as: Skype for Windows Phone Beta* supports the most important Skype features you’ve come to know and love. And [...]

Earlier in the week Microsoft announced that it was releasing a new beta version of Skype for Macs and Windows that would allow users to video call their Facebook friends. This new feature expands the Facebook-to-Facebook video calling feature that was released back in July. It is now possible for Skype users to video call [...]

Microsoft has just announced its completion of its bid to acquire Skype. The deal had to approved by a few bodies around the world such as the US and the EU but neither found any reason why this acquisition couldn’t go ahead. Microsoft has paid $8.5 billion for Skype, it is the company’s largest ever [...]

The EU has just announced, on Friday 7th October, that Microsoft can acquire Skype; this follows a similar decision by the US’ counterpart. Microsoft made an $8.5 billion offer for Skype earlier this year and following this ruling it is likely that the acquisition will be completed by the end of the year. View the [...]

Yesterday, in case you didn’t know (no idea how you could have missed it :P) Facebook and Skype announced a partnership that will allow Facebook friends to video call each other from within the browser. This is very interesting news and something I think will be very interesting/useful for Microsoft as it is in the [...]

Yesterday, amid all the excitement, I wrote a quick blog post collecting some of my tweets outlining ideas I had had about where Skype could be integrated effectively into existing Microsoft products. Well today I thought I would expand on some of those ideas and share some others thoughts about the deal. So first up [...]