News - Microsoft integrates Skype into Outlook.com

[HEXUS]

UK folk are first to get a preview version of the service, which requires a plugin.

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[Smudger]

The amount of times I get 'We can't connect to Outlook at the moment. Please try again later.', I don't think it's going to work too well...

[atomictom]

Why are they integrating more things when their current feature set don't work properly? It took my girlfriend earlier today 30 minutes just so she could get at one bloody email!

When a company's new product works worse than their previous product it's a depressing sign *cough* vista *cough* and they are just dumping more things into something that obviously can't cope.

[Andeh13]

I keep having silverlight or whatever the plugin is crash on me when I am typing out e-mails. Luckily 80% of the time it saves it as a draft but still drives me mad!

[Neostar]

Also they NEED to update the Windows 8 mail

[spoon_]

I don't have issues without Outlook.com email but then I'm using connector for Outlook 2010...

[crossy]

Why are they integrating more things when their current feature set don't work properly? When a company's new product works worse than their previous product it's a depressing sign *cough* vista *cough* and they are just dumping more things into something that obviously can't cope.

Totally agree - check out the comments on the "Outlook.Com" app on the Play store that replaced the Hotmail one; not exactly a collection of glowing praise!

Actually, like many, I got forced to switch from the Hotmail app (which worked fine) to the Outlook equivalent (which is very annoying). So with that experience I'm dreading migrating my emails etc from Hotmail to Outlook. I installed the Skype app (to replace WLM) but haven't done anything really with it yet.

[g8ina]

I must have been lucky so far, as, since I switched to outlook.com I've not had any problems !

[danielesp]

in the end microsoft has 1 program with all of software and soon it will be in the cloud and so on...?!

[Nikumba]

Still waiting for it to appear in my Outlook.com account, as be handy to do Skype IM in Outlook.com without having to use the main app when at work etc