Microsoft the owners of Skype have released an update to the Insider program and Skype Preview for PC and Mobile that allows you to send and receive SMS messages directly from your PC or Windows Phone (...this is not the regular sending text messages through Skype’s paid service).
As a result, Windows 10 already supports barebones SMS notifications via Cortana, but Skype’s implementation allows for attaching media, as well as viewing your conversations.
To activate this, users will have to set Skype as their primary SMS program from the app’s settings.
Microsoft says that it will bring SMS relay to the public over the next couple of months, and include new features, some already in this preview build including hiding conversations, an add contact button and being able to start Skype calls directly from websites. Other things coming to future builds, according to Microsoft:
Improved messaging – message sent status, copy and paste quoted messages, read/unread line indicator, preview a URL in chat, keyboard shortcuts, drag and drop of files and photos, drag and drop of URLs from browsers, and video messaging.
Easier calling – start call or conversation from profile page, group calls continue even when the initiator leaves, audio/video device settings, and loudspeaker
Additional Windows Mobile updates – transparent tile, video calls will default to loud speaker for video calls, and improved back button navigation.
For now, there's being no word on if the SMS relay is coming to Android and iOS.
Also, an information just came in now that The UK office of Skype , is to shut down, for reasons that some universally focused roles of Skye were at risk, alongside those at another of its businesses in Yammer, if the company continued its stay in London, a plan to move all London-based employees to its base in Paddington.
According to the Financial Times (FT) , the move by its owners Microsoft is likely to lead to the loss of many of the nearly 400 jobs at the London HQ.
The reports that one of the most valuable “unicorns” – those tech firms valued at more than $1bn (£768m) – in Europe is to scale down its presence in London, will come as a blow at a time when the UK is trying to position itself as an attractive option after the Brexit vote.
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