

Users in addition see the status of their contacts in Skype as well. Users who do that benefit from the following feature: the ability to send and receive instant messages from friends using Messenger, Xbox, Hotmail or. Microsoft account owners can sign in with their account as well without having to create a Skype account first. Facebook previously added Skype video chat to the chat feature of the website, and Microsoft integrated Facebook features into its Bing search engine. It is not the first cooperation of Microsoft and Facebook. What this means is that all Facebook users can log into Skype directly with their login credentials without creating a Skype account first. Facebook users who - for whatever reason - did not want to create a Skype account until now can now use their Facebook login instead. Skype made available a new beta version of the communication software for the Windows operating system today which introduces several new features in the Windows client.
