Fancy video chatting with your friends or family? Well, Skype group video chat is now free on Windows desktop, OS X and the Xbox One. If you have non of these platforms, not to worry because In a blog post, Skype said group video calling will be added to more platforms in the future “at no cost.” At the moment you can only skype with up to 10 people with video on all but Xbox One. For the mobile devices users, Skype has assured us it will be coming to Windows Phone, Android and IOS soon.
Why is this news? Skype started group video calling as a premium service in January 2011 for about £4.99 per month.
Why this sudden change of heart then? We can only come to the conclusion that Microsoft (the owner of Skype) is trying to compete with Google’s communication platform (Google Hangout) which was always free and does the same thing and more.
Only one thing is left to say. Get your skype on here!!!