Skype Preview Available for Windows Phone 8 (and WinPho 7.5) - The UpStream

Skype Preview Available for Windows Phone 8 (and WinPho 7.5)

posted Friday Nov 16, 2012 by Nicholas DiMeo

Skype Preview Available for Windows Phone 8 (and WinPho 7.5)

We knew when Microsoft acquired Skype for $8.5 billion that they'd move pretty quickly on implementing their new purchase into the Windows 8 platform. Last week we learned that Microsoft was going to can the Windows Live Messenger brand and bring in Skype in an organized fashion. This week, just over a year after the initial announcement of the acquisition, the Skype Preview is now available on Windows Phone 8.

Microsot says that the free download of only 8MB is strictly a preview release and that "experiences are not final." We have discovered that some features, like getting calls and messages while the app is closed or "minimized" are still being worked on. This rungs true with our own research of the Windows 8 platform and finding out it's not easy for the average developer to accomplish the simple task of running things in the background, so I'm glad to see it is also possibly perplexing the Skype dev team. Microsoft adds that until the app goes from a preview to official launch, that, as with all previews, you may have minor problems, like poor call quality and other random bugs pop up from time to time. From the Skype details page,

NOTE: Some capabilities listed above are work-in-progress and may not function consistently. This includes, but is not limited to: call reliability and the ability to receive incoming calls and chat notifications when outside of the app.

So now that Skype's available, have all my WinPho 8 and WinPho 7.5 (yes, you guys get love from Skype, too) people already downloaded it or did you not have the extra 512MB of memory required for the app because you downloaded too many episodes of F5 Live?

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