Skype is also smoothing the video-rendering capabilities of Skype 5.4 Beta for Mac, and has added to Skype 5.7 Beta for Windows a group screen-sharing capability for any Windows users with a Premium subscription. This new feature lets you maintain social connections with your Facebook friends and complements previously announced features such as being able to see when your Facebook friends are online, read a Nov. Starting such a call involves connecting the user s Skype and Facebook accounts, then selecting a Facebook friend with whom to chat. The latest versions of Skype for Mac and Windows now boast the ability to conduct Facebook-to-Facebook calls from within Skype. Skype was unavailable for comment about its future integration plans.Having been integrated into Microsoft, Skype is now moving ahead with new Facebook integration and some new features for its Mac and Windows versions. Only a small portion of Facebook’s total global users currently have access, but a larger roll out should occur in the next few weeks, according to the report. Users will be able to make outbound calls to landlines and cellphones from within Facebook to Skype and vice versa. Skype’s vice president and general manager of products Neil Stevens told Fortune that he wants to see Skype move beyond just an application when it hits Windows Phones - with integration similar to Apple’s treatment of the Safari web browser or Skype’s upcoming video service with Facebook.Ĭonsumers are likely to see a greater emphasis on Skype’s partnership with Facebook, which adds a video chat function to Facebook. This is mainly due to restrictions on those devices that don’t allow third-party applications to access the mobile phone’s video processor or address book information.

As a division of Microsoft, Skype will be able to gain much deeper integration that can’t be achieved on either iOS or Android.

While Skype currently produces application support for both Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android devices, the company plans to offer something unique when it’s brought to Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform, according to the report.

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