Microsoft rolls out Skype for web browsers

I wonder if this new version of Skype shows the user as being permanently online? The ios version used on ipads always shows the user as online regardless of their status and Microsoft refuse to acknowledge or fix the issue. What's up with that?! I have heard folks in the office complain about this too. If this new browser version showed the correct status of the user (as it should), I would be happy to use it.

Microsoft bought it because the US government told them to. It's no longer peer-to-peer, everything goes through Microsoft servers now so it's easier for the NSA to capture every single Skype conversation in the world.

You can't make this stuff up anymore. The world like one big TV drama and comedy rolled into one.

It's no longer peer-to-peer, everything goes through Microsoft servers now so it's easier for the NSA to capture every single Skype conversation in the world. You can't make this stuff up anymore.

And yet, you just did. A Skype computer call is still peer-to-peer. As with any VoIP scheme, the signalling to set up a call has to be handled by servers, but once the actual call is set up, it is peer-to-peer.

And I don't think anyone should believe that Microsoft bought Skype because the US government told them to. I think you made that stuff up too.

Can't wait to try it. Now, if they'd only add instant translation to it, we'd be Star-Treking our way to the future.

Which browsers will have it, or will it just be Explorer, of which no Mac user would touch?

@JapanGal, according to what I've read online, Skype for web browsers will work with any desktop web browser that supports the WebRTC standard (Firefox since Version 22, Google Chrome since Version 23 and Opera since Version 18; recent versions of Apple Safari and Microsoft Internet Explorer can run WebRTC using plugin modules).