Common
Sense, long thought missing from Microsoft’s
Redmond, Virginia Headquarters, seems to have returned with the new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Microsoft has now turned their attention
to Skype, with the introduction of Free
Group Video Calls as reported “SKYPE
GROUP VIDEO CALLS ARE NOW FREE FOR WINDOWS, MAC AND XBOX ONE USERS”,
published April 28, 2014 By Konrad Krawczyk, DigitalTrends and “Microsoft
begins rolling out free Skype group video calling”, published April 28,
2014 -- 13:29 GMT (06:29 PDT) by Mary Jo Foley, ZDNet.
This
was officially announced on their Official
Microsoft Blog and is available as of Sunday April 28th2014 for Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac, or Microsoft Xbox One users.
I
suspect the same must also be true for Skype
Cloud, the name I call Skype used via a
Browser with no software installed as described in my Geezam blog article entitled “Skype
clocks 2 Billion Minutes per Day worth of VoIP Calls driven by the Mobile
Computing Revolution”
After
having made Microsoft Office 365
available on the Apple iPad so that Microsoft
can finally start making money from Microsoft
Office as stated in my Geezam blog article
entitled “Microsoft
to introduce Office to Apple iPad on Thursday March 27th 2014”.
Skype’s now accessible via the Cloud, with
a new Setup that allows you to access and use Skype
in your Browser WITHOUT installing it on your computer. All you have to do is
open a Microsoft Outlook and sign up for
a free email account as pointed out in my Geezam
blog article entitled “Skype-ing
from your Browser now possible as WhatsApp conspires to kill International Calling”.
They’d
be driving away their 2 billion plus customers as pointed out in my Geezam blog article entitled “Skype
clocks 2 Billion Minutes per Day worth of VoIP Calls driven by the Mobile Computing
Revolution” from their service to Google+.
So
lovers of Skype and Microsoft, celebrate the return of
Compendium Consensus Reality aka Common Sense back to Microsoft with the arrival of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
How to make a Free
Group Call in Skype – Google+ now officially a Ghost Town Again
Follow
these simple instructions as listed in “HOW
TO MAKE A SKYPE GROUP VIDEO CALL FOR FREE”, published April 28, 2014 by
Konrad Krawczyk, Digitaltrends and
you’re all set:
1.
Open Skype
on Windows, Mac, or Xbox One
2.
Select one of the people for your Group
Call
3.
Click the + or Plus menu to the
right of your friend’s list
4.
Click Add People
5.
Click in the pop-up list labeled Choose contacts
6.
Choose who you want to have in your
Group Call
7.
Click Select to add them, using Remove to remove unwanted members of the
Group Call
8.
Click Add once you've added all people to your Group call
9.
Click on Video Call button to initiate the Video Call
Note
that you can also add anyone even if not in your contacts list by typing their
phone number in the Search field in the Choose contacts pop-up menu. With this feature now free from a Premium Skype Account, Microsoft can face whatever comes from
WhatsApp by June 2014!
I’ve
predicted this will be Free VoIP Calling with a Premium VoIP Video Calling
moneymaker as prophesied in my blog article
entitled “WhatsApp
VoIP Calling in Second Quarter of 2014 - WhatsApp kills International Calling
at the Advent of Facetime-eqsue Premium Video VoIP Calling on smartphones”.
Let’s
hope that Microsoft will eventually
roll out this Free Group Calling Feature to smartphones as well by that time!
Here’s
the link:
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