Skype introduces Conversation Ads
Microsoft paid $8.5 Billion U.S. Dollar for the Skype brand and technology which even for Microsoft was a hefty investment that Microsoft did not only make in what Skype offered to the company at that point in time, but also with the future in mind. Integrating Skype into Microsoft products like the upcoming operating system Windows 8, on Facebook, or even on Microsoft's Xbox system must have played a big role in the company's evaluation of the technology.
Benefiting from Skype's existing user base may have played a role as well. Sandhya Venkatachalam on the official Skype blog announced the launch of Conversation Ads in Skype. The new form of advertisement is displayed to users who use Skype to make free calls to other Skype users. Sandhya notes that the ads are not displayed to users who do not have Skype credit or subscriptions "when they're making 1:1 Skype-to-Skype audio calls using Skype for Windows".
Skype Conversation Ads will be silent and non-expanding, and only after Skype has made sure that the connection is properly established between the two participants of the call. The ads may use non-personally identifiable information (location, gender, age) to display ads to the user. Skype users can opt-out of those targeted advertisements with a click on Tools > Options > Privacy, and unchecking the Allow Microsoft targeted ads, including use of Skype profile age and gender option there. This does not mean that they won't see ads on the other hand, only that these ads are not targeted using these parameters.
Closing Words
Microsoft could increase the revenue of the Skype division considerably with these new type of advertisement on Skype. Most Skype users on the other hand who make free calls with the software will probably not mind the new type of ad format, provided that they remain unobtrusive as they seem to be right now. Most users I know do switch windows anyhow after the call has been established. (via Caschy)
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Are these articles AI generated?
Now the duplicates are more obvious.
This is below AI generated crap. It is copy of Microsoft Help website article without any relevant supporting text. Anyway you can find this information on many pages.
Yes, but why post the exact same article under a different title twice on the same day (19 march 2023), by two different writers?
1.) Excel Keyboard Shortcuts by Trevor Monteiro.
2.) 70+ Excel Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows by Priyanka Monteiro
Why oh why?
Yeah. Tell me more about “Priyanka Monteiro”. I’m dying to know. Indian-Portuguese bot ?
Probably they will announce that the taskbar will be placed at top, right or left, at your will.
Special event by they is a special crap for us.
If it’s Microsoft, don’t buy it.
Better brands at better prices elsewhere.
All new articles have zero count comments. :S
WTF? So, If I add one photo to 5 albums, will it count 5x on my storage?
It does not make any sense… on google photos, we can add photo to multiple albums, and it does not generate any additional space usage
I have O365 until end of this year, mostly for onedrive and probably will jump into google one
Photo storage must be kept free because customers chose gadgets just for photos and photos only.
What a nonsense. Does it mean that albums are de facto folders with copies of our pictures?
Sounds exactly like the poor coding Microsoft is known for in non-critical areas i.e. non Windows Core/Office Core.
I imagine a manager gave an employee the task to create the album feature with hardly any time so they just copied the folder feature with some cosmetic changes.
And now that they discovered what poor management results in do they go back and do the album feature properly?
Nope, just charge the customer twice.
Sounds like a go-getter that needs to be promoted for increasing sales and managing underlings “efficiently”, said the next layer of middle management.
When will those comments get fixed? Was every editor here replaced by AI and no one even works on this site?
Instead of a software company, Microsoft is now a fraud company.
For me this is proof that Microsoft has a back-door option into all accounts in their cloud.
quote “…… as the MSA key allowed the hacker group access to virtually any cloud account at Microsoft…..”
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so this MSA key which is available to MS officers can give access to all accounts in MS cloud.This is the backdoor that MS has into the cloud accounts. Lucky I never got any relevant files of mine in their (MS) cloud.
>”Now You: what is your theory?”
That someone handed an employee a briefcase full of cash and the employee allowed them access to all their accounts and systems.
Anything that requires 5-10 different coincidences to happen is highly unlikely. Occam’s razor.
Good reason to never login to your precious machine with a Microsoft a/c a.k.a. as the cloud.
The GAFAM are always very careless about our software automatically sending to them telemetry and crash dumps in our backs. It’s a reminder not to send them anything when it’s possible to opt out, and not to opt in, considering what they may contain. And there is irony in this carelessness biting them back, even if in that case they show that they are much more cautious when it’s their own data that is at stake.