This will open up your communication window with that person. You can interact with them by clicking on each one. The people column is your contacts in Skype. You can set these individually with each contact. The Favorites column will allow you to keep contacts you stay in touch with more often. The recent column will show you your recent conversations with others. You can also get usage statistics to see how much you are using the service.īack on the main screen, you have several columns. If you scroll down, you can change your profile, billing, features and more. You can buy credits, buy subscriptions and get support. This will open your settings as well as the help files for Skype. This will open some of the basic things in Skype for you, such as setting your mood, changing your availability and accessing your settings. Like other apps in Windows 8, Skype is meant for the tablet experience but it still very much usable on a desktop or laptop computer.Ĭlick on your portrait in the top right corner of Skype. Skype will open in all its full-screen glory for you. This allows you to run Skype in the background so you can receive messages, notifications, and calls while doing other things in Windows. Skype will then ask if you want to run it in the background. Click “Allow” if you are okay with it, click “Block” if you want to use another mic or webcam. The first thing Skype will ask you is if you want to use your onboard microphone and webcam by default. Now, click the Skype live tile to open it in Windows 8. Maybe this is enough for a tablet on Windows RT, but somehow I don't see any use for it on a working PC.When you find it, click “Install” to start the process. More about Metro: I know absolutely nothing about programming for Metro, but in general, I did not literally like all the applications for it it seems that this is some kind of web application with limited functionality that can be run in a browser. Skype for Metro was removed and the old Skype was installed, now called "Skype for Desktop" on the official website.
#Install skype for windows 8 pro#
At the same time, I am very satisfied with the Windows 8 Pro operating system itself.
"You must not multiply things unnecessarily." And here, in my opinion, he was attracted and spawned. Because I need it? But this is my attitude towards Metro in general: the start screen in Windows 8 just interferes with my work and forces me to take more actions to perform the same tasks. To select a contact, chat, perform any other standard action in Skype, you have to do one or two more actions than in its usual version. In general, this point, in my opinion, concerns not only Skype, but also other Metro things. Video call? Be prepared for you to have trouble with this - almost everyone has: someone has something with the picture, for example - "the call failed" for me, and it is not possible to fix it somehow: very little information can be learned looking at the behavior of the Metro app: I couldn't figure out exactly what the error is. Show desktop? Neither (and sometimes I need it, for example, to help a customer set up a computer or solve some other problem with a PC, without resorting to remote control of the computer).
I have a suggestion that this has something to do with Microsoft's claim that when you don't see the tile on the Start screen, it doesn't work and doesn't consume resources. Judging from the reviews in the store, I'm far from the only one. I don't know what it's connected to, but it seems like for a while while I'm working on the desktop and writing this article, Skype stops working.
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