In its efforts to stay relevant in a world of competitive messaging
apps, Microsoft continues to beef up Skype with new features it hopes
will attract new users to its platform.
That is exactly what the Skype team aims to do with the addition of
the latest feature of Skype for Windows and Skype for Mac.
In a blog
post, the Skype team has announced that users can now share links to
their Skype chats with other people without requiring them to create or
open a Skype account.
"Today, we're excited to announce something new - a small change that
will make a big difference to how people use Skype every day," says
Microsoft. "We've started to roll out the ability for users to invite
anyone to join a Skype chat by sharing a unique link - send it however
you want, in an email, on Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger or Twitter."
The new feature works by letting users generate a unique link for a
certain chat by clicking the +New button. This will create the link that
can then be shared to other people through any means. On the receiving
side, users who are invited to a chat can simply click on the link to go
to the Skype for Web interface, enter their name and start chatting
away.
The link can also be shared with Android and iOS users, who can join
the chat on mobile if they have a Skype account. In the future, the
Skype team promises to allow users to chat on mobile even without having
an account. For now, however, the feature is only available for Skype
for Web and is limited only to users in the U.S. and U.K., although
Microsoft says the feature will roll out to other countries in the
coming weeks.
While the feature is obviously targeted towards casual users who want
to communicate with their family and friends, it is still useful for
business users who are looking to participate in less formal
conversations with coworkers, partners or clients without requiring them
to download the Skype client to their PCs or Macs.
Microsoft, in fact, has been beefing up Skype for enterprise users
recently. On Wednesday, we reported that Microsoft killed of Lync 2013
for iOS and replaced it with Skype for Business instead. The new
offering provides a number of new features, such as synced conversations
and stronger security measures, aimed at business owners.
Reference: Prothom Alo.

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