It’s not entirely straight-forward, but then again Microsoft has a reputation for making a lot of things complicated. Just open up the Messenger button at the top-right of the window and click the “Add from Skype” button. If you don’t want to install the Skype desktop app, this is an “okay” alternative but only if you are an existing Skype user. It’s still lacking a lot of the features from the Skype desktop or mobile apps, but if you only come at it expecting a Skype-Lite, then it passes through as “good enough.” Conclusion Once you’ve enabled it, there is no button to get rid of it short of completely unlinking the Microsoft account on the Skype Account Settings page.īut how does it function otherwise? Well it’s actually quite good! Call quality is clear, video quality is clear, and the messaging service integrates nicely with the current integrated messenger. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Office 365 Government Secret cloud, which includes our first release of Office 365 Government capabilities including Exchange, Outlook, and Microsoft 365 Apps. The main complaint is that there is no where to turn off the Skype feature in. Although if you have both Skype (desktop) and an open browser window then we were able to get double-notifications.Īlthough having both Skype for the desktop and for the browser open is rather redundant. We have yet to run into the same issue with Windows 7. Paul Thurrott mentioned a problem with notification spam when receiving calls over the integrated service while using Windows 8.1. Note: Voice-only calls and messaging will still work without the plugin. Which, the plugin is annoying in of itself. Even when messaging the name from the full desktop Skype app it didn’t go through, likely because the contact was not on the list.Īnother annoyance is it requires Skype a web-plugin for video calls. The biggest problem is probably there is no way to add Skype users to your contacts list from.

For one, if you don’t have already have a Skype account via the full desktop app – the one you create via will have this crummy live: prefix added to it.

It seems like a pretty good idea, but so far from what we’ve seen the implementation is terrible for new users. MSN has all of the great internet services under one roof from Hotmail email to popular MSN Messenger to news, links, latest searches and a.

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