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Skype is one of the biggest software products that came out of Europe – a software so successful; its name became a synonym for ‘video calling.’ The London office was one of the original offices of Skype – despite the headquarters being in Luxemburg. It opened in 2003 – but …

The Brexit vote has been a political nightmare – it seems it’s turning into a financial one as well. Businesses do not like uncertainty; and nothing about Brexit is certain, except that it’s making people nervous. In a blog post, Microsoft has said that it would be amending its prices …

Microsoft has been quite busy modernizing its enterprise and business-oriented products lately. The recent LinkedIn purchase was part of this, and while Microsoft did attempt to buy Slack for 8 billion$, it appears those attempts didn’t really turn out to be very successful. Slack has been making waves in quite …

Microsoft showed off Skype Translator for the first time in 2014, and released it as a public preview in January of this year; a new language has been added with support for spoken language translation: Russian. The Skype Translator blew everyone way when it was first demonstrated by Satya Nadella …

Microsoft seems to have big things planned for Skype. A few days ago Microsoft decided to close the London offices of Skype; now it seems that was only the beginning of what’s to come. When the news broke out about Skype’s London office closure, we suspected it was because Microsoft …

There is a new Windows 10 Insider build out for the Insiders – and while there aren’t many new things to see for Windows 10, the build does include some nice updates to some of the apps. As always, if you are on the old build – simply browse to …

Microsoft is one of the few companies who understand the necessity of a dark theme. Skype Web is now getting some of that love, with a dark mode added in the beta. Perhaps Microsoft understands the need for dark mode because of Modern UI – after all, this design language …

It has been a long while since Microsoft purchased Skype; Microsoft only started restructuring and integrating Skype into itself very recently, and starting next week they get a bit closer. It didn’t take long for Microsoft to link Skype ID’s with Microsoft accounts after the Skype deal went through; Microsoft …

Come November, if you are still on a Windows Phone 8.1 device, you won’t be receiving any further updates for Skype; Microsoft is bailing the sinking ship. Skype is going through a massive transformation at the moment – unfortunately, the folks still on Windows Phone 8.1 won’t be able to …

Microsoft released this app in a public preview back in September; it seems Microsoft is now ready to peel off that sticker and bring the app to the Windows Store as a full release. The announcement comes via Microsoft SharePoint’s Twitter – not much fuss there. SharePoint is an integral part …