Skype for Business customers will be able to reach Skype users not only for instant messaging chats and audio calls, but also for video calls, Microsoft said. The upcoming Skype for Business client on Windows looks like a slightly-tweaked version of the current Lync client.Īlthough the two will continue to focus on different pools of users, Skype for Business will include some elements of the consumer-Skype user interface (UI) and expand the current Lync-Skype interoperability.
Since then, Microsoft has maintained two lines of instant messaging and video conferencing software - Skype for consumers and Lync for businesses - with the latter pitched as an inside-the-perimeter communications platform that also handles VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) telephony chores.
If you’ve never used Translator, it works with eight languages for voice calls (including Arabic, German, Italian, and Russian) and more than 50 languages for text-based conversations.The rebranding comes more than three years after Microsoft acquired Skype for $8.5 billion. Unless you’ve got credits-if you’re an Office 365 Home or Personal subscriber, you get 60 minutes per month-you will have to pay for calls to cell or landlines.
Then, download the latest version of Skype Preview. To try it out, you need to be running the latest version of Windows: Windows 10 Insider preview Build 14986, PCWorld explains (sorry, Mac users). Until now, both parties on a call have needed to be on Skype for the feature to work, but in a recent update, Microsoft (who owns Skype) added the ability for this translating magic to happen when you’re calling a mobile or landline phone, too. It’s a bit like a Star Trek universal translator, but on your computer. Skype Translator, which officially debuted in May 2015, is truly astounding: It translates languages in real time, so you can have a call with a colleague who speaks Spanish, for example, and converse back and forth, reading an accurate translation of what the other person is saying, as they’re saying it. Unfortunately, language barriers continue to be an issue, but Skype Translator wants to change that. For communications, especially, you can now text, FaceTime, or chat with someone whether they’re sitting next to you on the couch or are isolated in a distant country. One of the magical things about technology is how it can break down borders.
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