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  • Microsoft Rolls Out Skype Video Calling For Edge

    Microsoft Rolls Out Skype Video Calling For Edge

    Microsoft announced (in preview) new video, voice, and group calling functionality on Microsoft Edge for Windows 10. It utilizes the ORTC media engine that was recently embedded into the browser.

    “If you use Skype online, whether it’s through Skype for Web, Outlook.com, Office Online or OneDrive, now it’s even easier to get in touch with anyone,” a spokesperson for the company tells WebProNews.

    No download is necessary. You don’t actually have to install a plugin. You can just sign in and click to start a call.

    “We’re lucky to have so many industry-leading engineers within the Skype and Microsoft Edge teams,” the Skype team says in a blog post. “They have combined their knowledge to deliver the very best plugin free calling experience during this Preview period. Because the Skype and Microsoft Edge teams work so closely, it means you’ll be able to take advantage of plugin free calling in certain calling scenarios from Microsoft’s Edge browser first: All Skype one-to-one and group voice and video calls to and from Microsoft Edge browsers are plugin free; All Skype one-to-one calls from Microsoft Edge to the latest versions of Skype for Windows and Skype for Mac are plug in free.”

    The roll-out is starting and should be complete by the end of April.

    Images via Skype

  • Microsoft Edge Browser Gets Extensions (In Preview)

    Microsoft Edge Browser Gets Extensions (In Preview)

    Microsoft announced the first set of browser extensions for Microsoft Edge. They’re now availble in preview via the Windows Insider Program.

    Build 14291 was just released to the Fast ring, and the extensions are included. The initial extensions include: Microsoft Translator, Mouse Gestures, and Reddit Enhancement Suite.

    To add an extension, download it, select Run from the download notification, select More and then Extensions, and select Load extension. Then, choose the extension folder, and select Select folder.

    “In keeping with our commitment to an interoperable web, we’re participating in the W3C Browser Extension Community Group’s efforts to define standardized extension APIs based on familiar web technologies,” the Edge team says in a blog post. “Today, we’re previewing our first step towards that goal.”

    “This release supports a selection of preview extensions that have been validated by our team to work with the current set of supported APIs,” it adds. “Some planned APIs are not yet supported, but will be coming in future previews. We’ll share additional examples of extensions with future releases.”

    You can check out the extensions page here.

    Image via YouTube

  • U2’s Mandatory iTunes Album Thing Was ‘Punk Rock…Disruptive’

    U2’s Mandatory iTunes Album Thing Was ‘Punk Rock…Disruptive’

    It’s only Thursday, but U2 lead guitarist Edge has already won quote-of-the-week.

    It comes in an upcoming interview with Time (paywall), via Re/code. Here’s what Edge had to say concerning the recent deal with Apple that saw the company push free copies of the band’s 13th studio album to all iTunes users –

    “[It was] actually incredibly subversive. It’s really punk rock, it’s really disruptive*.”

    If you’re an Android user and/or spent the last week in a box, you could have missed the big U2/Apple controversy. Last week, during Apple’s big press event for the iPhone 6, CEO Tim Cook gave U2′s newest album, Songs of Innocence, to every single iTunes user – for free.

    But here’s the thing – instead of just allowing users to download the album for free if they wanted to do so, Apple pushed the album to everyone. It was mandatory U2.

    This led to lots of people waking up in a why the fuck is there U2 on my phone stupor, followed by a pretty significant backlash. The social media outcry was so intense, Apple was forced to create a dedicated page with the sole purpose of helping people remove the album from their libraries with one click.

    The deal was reportedly worth a giant royalty fee and a marketing budget of $100 million for the legendary Irish band. With 38 million people accessing the new album, Apple boasted that the album release was the biggest of all time. Well, of course it was.

    So, that leads us to Edge and his rosy view of the deal. Was it the worst thing ever to find a free album in your iTunes library. No, of course not. But punk rock?

    *I’ll give you disruptive, as it was rather disrupting to force millions and million of people to own an album.

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