Microsoft will Starts Integrating Skype Into Office

Microsoft intends to buy the popular peer-to-peer VoIP service Skype at the begining of 2011 and also the acquisition closed last October. Since then, though, Microsoft mostly left Skype alone and continued to run it as a stand-alone product. With the discharge of the following version of Office, buy office 2010 is now integrating Skype closely into its office productivity suite. Skype will, for example, now power the "presence" feature in Outlook and iexcl;sect;C much like Yammer, Microsoft's newest acquisition iexcl;sect;C will end up a default part of every version of Office.

It's not clear if cheap windows 10 is building other areas of Skype (including video chat) directly into its Lync communications platform for Office. Based on Microsoft, though, Skype users will be able to "integrate Skype contacts in Lync." Most likely today's aouncement is only the start of Skype's integration into more Office products.

Office 365, the new subscription-based version of Office, will also offer its users 60 minutes of Skype credit monthly. Microsoft hasn't released many details relating to this service, however with the exceptions of mobile numbers in some countries and "special, premium and nongeographic numbers," this should allow Office 365 Home Premium users to call phones virtually anywhere on the planet. cheap office 2010 professional plus hasn't released any information about pricing for any of their Office 365 editions.