Skype for Web now supports calls to mobile and fixed network
Microsoft enriches the web version of Skype with support for calls to mobile devices and landlines. Added also new features dedicated to YouTube videos, to contact management and notifications.
Skype, the popular instant messaging and VoIP service operated by Microsoft, is available not only through the available clients for the most popular desktop and mobile app, but directly via the web. Microsoft is actively working to strengthen the Skype offer for Web and recently announced a series of innovations that concern.
The first is related to the ability to make phone calls to landlines and mobile directly via the web app to Skype. To do this all you need is a credit or a Skype subscription, log onto https://web.skype.com/en/, enter their login data, go to the ” Call Phones ” tab and use the telephone keypad to dial the phone number of the recipient.
Another new feature is the ability to manage links to YouTube videos so as to avoid having to leave the browser tab dedicated to Skype. You will receive the link to the YouTube videos will the possibility of using the same controls for volume and playback in the full-screen video. A click on the control to playback will start immediately the video inside the chat.
The update of the functions of Skype for Web also includes the ability to add a new contact to the conversation, even if it is outside the set of Skype contacts and even if that user does not use the service.
This is a feature borrowed from the desktop version of Skype, easily activated by pressing the ” New ” and then ” Share Conversation ” (button at the bottom left of the ” All contacts ” box). There by generates a url, easily shared, allowing the contact to join the conversation even in guest mode.
Closes the framework of the changes introduced support for notifications. Once carried through the login process, the user will have the option to receive notifications about new messages, even while in another browser tab or use another app.
The web version continues to present itself as a potential alternative to Skype’s desktop client and does not require any installation of programs on your computer. The strengthening of its capabilities is a necessary path to make it really attractive for users who daily use the IM service, and VoIP of Microsoft.
From this point of view the confirmation of additional features coming in the next weeks / months is undoubtedly welcome. To try Skype for web, simply log on to this address.
