Microsoft has been on a roll lately with its apps designed for Android users, such as bringing its Face Swap, Microsoft Planner, live game-streaming app Mixer, and Cortana AI for Samsung Galaxy devices to the Play Store. Redmond’s goal is to be a software-first company these days, gaining user adoption as much as possible.
Well, Microsoft may not have the user adoption of its Windows mobile platforms, but the company has always had a success story in Skype, a texting and video chatting app that many have used for years. Now, Microsoft is bringing its Skype Preview update app to Android devices in hopes of getting feedback on the texting and video chatting service to make it even better for the world’s most widely-adopted platform.
The Skype Preview update app hasn’t been massively released at this point, so your curiosity to try out new Skype features before worldwide users get them means that you’re subjecting yourself to software bugs, broken functions, and features that may either not work or won’t work properly.
Good. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, here’s what you can expect in Skype Preview. First, the Skype Preview app has been changed so that users can distinguish between the Preview app and the mainstream Skype app. Next, an emoji and emoticon search has been added, along with the ability to delete chats.
Skype Preview is now available for Android Marshmallow and Android Nougat users. Just remember, you’re pioneering new Skype features on a new mobile frontier, but that frontier also comes with its share of trouble. Go ahead and settle in the future before everyone else.
→ Download Skype Preview on the Play Store
