Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Skype imminent on Windows Phone

It seems to have taken a long time for Microsoft to deploy a Windows Phone version of Skype, the popular VoIP client of the company that they acquired for a whopping USD$8.5bn last year after much regulatory scrutiny, but one is "coming soon" according to the Skype division's vice president Rick Osterloh.

A Windows Phone version of Skype was originally due to launch before the end of last year as a fully integrated client, and is an embarrassing omission for Microsoft at the moment in being the only major smartphone platform for which there is not currently a Skype client available for.

Osterloh added that versions for both Windows 8 and the Xbox will follow.

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