Microsoft to merge Messenger into Skype
Microsoft is slowly but steadily transforming the former voice over IP software Skype into the company's main messaging platform that covers more than just making calls to other Skype users. One of the latest moves to realize that vision is the merging of Microsoft Messenger with Skype.
A recent Skype update started the transformation as Microsoft added options to Skype to sign in to the software with a Microsoft Account - former Windows Live account -instead of a Skype account. This in theory enabled all Messenger users to sign in to Skype with their Messenger account. Messenger users who sign in with their account will notice that all of their Messenger contacts are available in Skype.
Microsoft confirmed today that the company's Messenger will be retired in the first quarter of 2013 when it will be replaced by Skype. The only exception is China where the Messenger will still be available.
Our goal remains to deliver the best communications experience for everyone, everywhere. We want to focus our efforts on making things simpler for our users while continuously improving the overall experience. We will retire Messenger in all countries worldwide in the first quarter of 2013 (with the exception of mainland China where Messenger will continue to be available).
Microsoft notes that Messenger users will benefit from additional features that Skype makes available, including group video calling, sharing screens, instant messaging, broader device support and the option to call landlines and mobiles.
Once you have merged your Messenger account with Skype, you will notice that your Messenger buddy list is already synchronized with Skype and available under Contacts. A click on the All link under Contacts gives you the option to filter contacts by type, so that you can only display our Messenger contacts here, those who are online, from Facebook, or those from Skype.
Skype as it stands now is missing some of the features that Messenger is currently offering, for instance the ability to watch photos or Youtube videos together, or the option to change the font of the application. It is also not clear what Microsoft intends to do with Windows Messenger for Windows Phone 8 or Windows 8's messaging application.
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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.