In an actual video call, Skype works as expected. While Skype for Windows 8 will eventually offer a snap interface so you can use this app side-by-side with other apps or the desktop, that view is currently non-functional. (You can also add a contact to your favorites list by displaying the app bar here and choosing Favorite.) When you view an individual contact’s screen, you’ll see their profile picture (if any), large green buttons for video and audio calls, availability, a reminder about that contact’s location and local time, and buttons and fields for entering a text message or contacting them via SMS on their mobile phone. As with elsewhere in this app, available contacts will have a green presence indicator and those with customized profile pictures will display that instead of a generic icon. If you have more contacts than will fit on the landing page, you can view the All People screen to see everyone.
Tap the large Call button on the landing page, and you’ll find another full-screen experience where you can call or text an arbitrary phone number, access your current payment and balance info, and view your recent calls history. If you tap this, a pane expands to show your status (available, by default) and a link to account information. There’s also a link with your Skype name and profile message in the upper right. The initial view, or landing page, is a full-screen experience that provides columns for recent calls, favorites, and people. And even in this incomplete, slightly broken first version, called an App Preview, you can see where Microsoft/Skype is headed. Neowin recently leaked news of the Skype app for Windows 8.
(Skype is also being integrated into other core Microsoft products, including Office 2013,, and the Xbox 360, among others.) It’s obviously not surprising that Microsoft would be working on a Skype app for Windows 8, given that the software giant purchased Skype last year for $8.5 billion. Pre-order Windows 8 Secrets today on and save! In this new co-post, we look briefly at the Metro style Skype app for Windows 8, which should ship in time for the OS’s general availability in late October. With tech enthusiast web sites from around the world continuing to leak Windows 8 information, your intrepid “Windows 8 Secrets” co-authors offer a bit of color commentary about what you’re seeing elsewhere and how things will really work.
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