Skype for Outlook.com is now fully available in the United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil, France, Canada and the United States.
Outlook.com, which already allows Outlook users to connect with Facebook, Skype, and Google friends, now allows users to make Skype video calls directly from inside Outlook.com.
With Microsoft also making Skype part of the Windows operating system, we now have reached a point where users might just expect to be able to communicate using voice, video and text, from inside their mail apps and when using Windows PC devices.
That trend has been developing for years, with communications becoming part of other apps, and over the top messaging apps proliferating.
But such capabilities also illustrate why communications service providers are so intent on creating new revenue streams. They have to.
Monday, August 19, 2013
Skype Now Available from Inside Outlook.com
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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