Below that is your contact list, with Favorites on top. Below these are four buttons for Home, Call Phones, Create Conversation, and a new one for Add Bots.
The current version is clean and simple, with your user picture and a search box at top left. Skype has tweaked its interface over the years. If you use Outlook, then a menu choice lets you show all of your contacts from that program. You can also search the whole Skype Directory for contacts or simply enter a name and phone number. You can add phone numbers to call as well as people with Skype accounts. Here, you're encouraged to search your existing contacts for Skype users with whom to connect. Click "Start Using Skype," and you'll be taken to the main program window. You can also set a profile picture so that contacts can recognize you. Next, you log into the Skype app and test your camera, microphone, and speakers. After filling in a CAPTCHA entry, you're a Skype member. If your desired name isn't available, then the setup proposes near matches that are. Skype makes sure your password is strong so you may want to use a password manager to remember it. Account creation happens on the Skype website, and it requires first and last names, email address, country, language, and your desired Skype name and password. If you've ever signed up with a Hotmail or account, then you already have one of these. Next, you'll need to sign into or create a Skype or Microsoft account. Skype is also a no-brainer Editors' Choice in our video conferencing category. For this review, we tested the released desktop version on Windows 10, though we also ran the Preview version when testing the new bots. Across the board, Skype works with good voice and video quality, in sleek, modern interfaces.
In fact, clients are even available for Android Wear, Apple Watch, Blackberry, Linux, and Xbox. You can take advantage of Skype whether you're an Android, Apple, or Windows user. It earns a PCMag Editors' Choice award for personal Voice-over-IP (VoIP) along with RingCentral (for Business), our Editors' Choice for business. While Microsoft's Windows 10 Skype strategy isn't quite finalized yet, with both a preview and a released version available at the same time, the service still offers more than any competitor. Artificial intelligence (AI), in the form of chat bots, now joins the long list of Skype capabilities. An actual public phone number, Wi-Fi hotspots, live translation, and applications for every major platform? Skype has you covered there, too. Skype is the department store of communication software.
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