{"id":120052,"date":"2017-08-20T10:30:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T08:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=120052"},"modified":"2017-08-18T13:47:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T11:47:52","slug":"skype-preview-now-available-on-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/120052-skype-preview-now-available-on-desktop","title":{"rendered":"Skype Preview now available on desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.skype.com\/news\/2017\/08\/17\/hello-desktops-meet-skype-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>A new preview version of Skype<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is available on desktop computers, which includes new features and enhancements.<\/p>\n<p>Skype Preview is designed take advantage of large screens, and the company said it focused on chat in Skype Preview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGroup chats are livelier with new features that improve your connection with friends and family, and you can also do more in group calls, with real-time screen and photo sharing,\u201d said Skype.<\/p>\n<p>Skype is also previewing features aimed at increasing productivity.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>@mentions<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Allows users to jump into conversations where they were @mentioned to see what people have said.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chat media gallery<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Finding shared content, such as links, documents, or media, in a chat is easier.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Enhanced group calls<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Helps customise the group call experience with drag and drop functionality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/222874-skype-gets-support-for-integrated-paypal-payments.html\">Skype gets support for integrated PayPal payments<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new preview version of Skype\u00a0is available on desktop computers, which includes new features and enhancements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":120054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18639,2044,24944],"class_list":["post-120052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-desktop","tag-preview","tag-skype"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}