Windows 10: Skype Universal Windows Platform app Preview for Windows 10 is coming

Brink · Mar 23, 2016

We’ve been listening, and we’ve heard you. In the coming weeks, we’ll release the first version of the Skype Universal Windows Platform Preview app to our Windows Insiders for testing. You may be wondering why, and what this means for the Skype experiences you are using on Windows 10. Since November, we’ve been collecting feedback on the Consumer Preview of Skype Integration for Windows 10. The integration enabled us to give people the fastest path to what they want to do with Skype. We took advantage of the mobile paradigm with one app per task, such as the Phone app, Maps app, and so on. With this in mind, we released built-in, task oriented apps. This approach worked well in research: people saw value in single mode apps that promised a lighter weight and speedier path from intent to completion.

But what we also learned from this feedback is that as the screen size gets bigger—large tablets, 2 in 1s and PCs for example—and you begin to use the apps, expectations shift and people want to limit app clutter. And like that, you once again want an app that lets you do anything you want within the comfort of one window. This is why we are introducing the Skype Universal Windows Platform app.

We wanted to learn from integration and improve on the current Skype app with new experiences. We’ve simplified the look and feel by removing duplicative and unnecessary menus to prevent confusion between them. The global menus are now in a new, single Settings menu, and you’ll see contextual menus appear in upcoming releases.

So, what’s in this version? It includes the following popular functionality:

Sign in with your Microsoft Account and link a Skype ID

Show and change your availability

See a list of your existing Skype contacts

Initiate a chat with anyone in your contact list

See that the other person is typing

Logout

Make one-to-one voice and video calls and send messages

Personalize your experience with emoticons and Mojis

Send photos

See notifications for incoming calls and messages outside of the app

Participate in existing group chats

What’s to come? More flexibility, sharing and group features will come in the next couple of releases, including:

Start a chat with anyone using Skype or not using Skype

Create a group and send group messages

Group voice and video calling

Share your screen, files and video messages

Manage notifications from individual chats

And much more…

You’ll also see us work a lot to ensure the app is responsive:

You’ll notice that you can still use the existing Skype app on Windows 10 PCs. Over time we will streamline all Skype for Windows 10 experiences into the Skype Universal Windows Platform app, but we’ll do this in stages—first ensuring we release a fully featured, high quality and lightweight application by gathering your feedback and monitoring its performance.

What about Windows 10 Mobile? We’ll first release on Windows 10 PCs and shortly, you’ll be able to use the same Universal Windows Platform app on your Windows 10 Mobile devices.

Give the Skype Universal Windows Platform Preview app a go if you’re an Insider. If you’re not a Windows Insider yet, you can sign up here. Please note this will be the first preview build so there a few smaller bugs we’re working through. Once you have the build, please give us feedback on your experience by going to the Windows Feedback app, searching for Skype and up-voting a trending topic or creating a new item.

Finally, if you have questions, you can peek at our list of top FAQs here.

Thank you for all the insight and feedback you’ve given us over this past year. We’re excited to hear your thoughts as you continue this journey with us. Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to bring new features to the Skype Universal Windows Platform Preview app.
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davidhk · Mar 23, 2016

Sounds good.
Particularly this feature :
Start a chat with anyone using Skype or not using Skype.

:)

sonyvaio_900 · Mar 23, 2016

Windows 10 Store and some apps close immediately without the "stopped working" notifications

My computer running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (Build 7601.xxxxx) and being kept up to date. It has a virtual machine running Windows 10 Anniversary Update build 14393.xxx and I keep the virtual machine up to date. Yesterday, Store and other 'Universal Windows
platform' apps such as Microsoft Edge, Groove Music, Xbox,... operated normally. Today, I try to open these apps including Store, Groove Music, Microsoft Edge, Skype Preview, Photos on the Windows 10 Anniversary Update build 14393.xxx virtual machine. Unfortunately,
after few seconds, they close immediately due to an unknown reason. All other apps still operate normally. No luck for me, when I run the Windows Store Reset Tool by typing
wsreset on the Ask me anything bar, it opens the Store app, then the Store app closes immediately. There are no "Store has stopped working", "Microsoft Edge has stopped working", "Groove Music has stopped working", "Skype Preview
has stopped working", "Photos has stopped working" notifications from Windows Error Reporting. What should I do to make all 'Universal Windows platform' apps (include Store) operate better? And should I reinstall the Windows 10 machine?

Andrew[N] · Mar 23, 2016

Skype integration in Messaging app doesn't work

Option to send Skype messages from Messaging app was removed in Anniversary Update (OS build 14393). Now you should use new universal Skype app (for now it's named Skype Preview).

Cliff S · Mar 24, 2016

It sounds like what I already use...
Regular old fashioned.....Desktop Skype, which works perfectly fine for me*Biggrin

hTconeM9user · Mar 26, 2016

Screenshots for Skype UWP Windows 10 app leaked

A couple of days after Microsoft revealed it was going to make a Skype Universal Windows Platform app, some screenshots showing the Windows 10 PC version in action have been leaked onto the Internet.

Microsoft previously announced it wasn't going to make a UWP Skype app for Windows 10, in favor of integrating Skype features in the operating system's Phone, Messaging and Video apps. The company changed its mind after receiving feedback from Windows 10 users that they wanted one app that handled all those features at once.

To view Screen Shots and to Read More
Screenshots for Skype UWP Windows 10 app leaked | Windows Central

Cluster Head · Apr 4, 2018

Skype Universal Windows Platform app Preview for Windows 10 is coming to Windows Insiders

We’ve been listening, and we’ve heard you. In the coming weeks, we’ll release the first version of the Skype Universal Windows Platform Preview app to our Windows Insiders for testing. You may be wondering why, and what this means for the Skype experiences you are using on Windows 10. Since November, we’ve been collecting feedback on the Consumer Preview of Skype Integration for Windows 10. The integration enabled us to give people the fastest path to what they want to do with Skype. We took advantage of the mobile paradigm with one app per task, such as the Phone app, Maps app, and so on. With this in mind, we released built-in, task oriented apps. This approach worked well in research: people saw value in single mode apps that promised a lighter weight and speedier path from intent to completion.

But what we also learned from this feedback is that as the screen size gets bigger—large tablets, 2 in 1s and PCs for example—and you begin to use the apps, expectations shift and people want to limit app clutter. And like that, you once again want an app that lets you do anything you want within the comfort of one window. This is why we are introducing the Skype Universal Windows Platform app.

We wanted to learn from integration and improve on the current Skype app with new experiences. We’ve simplified the look and feel by removing duplicative and unnecessary menus to prevent confusion between them. The global menus are now in a new, single Settings menu, and you’ll see contextual menus appear in upcoming releases.
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Windows 10: Skype Universal Windows Platform app Preview for Windows 10 is coming

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