Keep in touch with your friends and family with Skype
When it comes to communicating on the Internet, there are many applications, online platforms or services that we can use. But if there's one that's been with us for quite a few years, that's fine Skype from Microsoft .
In fact, this is an app for communicating with users around the world, which hasn't always been owned by the software giant, but was acquired just under 10 years ago for a good number. . And there it continues to work and be used, in one way or another, by millions of users around the world.
What can Skype do for us?
To begin with, we'll tell you that when we talk about Skype or Whatsapp , we are referring to a program that allows us to establish real-time communications over the Internet. This is extended to anyone who has installed the same program, whether on their desktop computer or his mobile device . It is something that has been used for years by millions of individual and business users.
In fact, what we can do through this platform are individual or group calls and video calls, chats, meetings, etc. all of this via the Internet, as you can imagine. But it is not only about that, but at the same time, in communications, we can send texts as instant messaging, or share files and contacts with the rest of the members of the communication. At the same time, once we have made contact over here, we can also share screen with the rest, or conduct private conversations.
Also say that downloading and launching the application as such, whether on PC or mobile, is free, and its interface him makes it very easy to use. At the same time, we must take into account that not all functions and types of use that we find here are free.
What the payment plans offer
With this we want to tell you that the basic operation of the program, as well as its download, is free, as we mentioned, but there are others paid functions . In order to take advantage of this, we may subscribe to some of the plans that Microsoft offers us in this regard and thus get the most out of the online service.
Among the additional services that the platform offers us, paying, to communicate with the rest, we can highlight the possibility of making calls to telephones from all over the world. In addition, we will also have the possibility to send SMS consuming money from the contracted plan. As we see in the attached capture, we find here plans of 5, 10 and 25 euros. This is a good option, for example, for end users or businesses that need to make a lot of international calls. In fact, on the Microsoft service website itself, we can see the costs of Skype calls , depending on the country we are calling.
How to use Skype functions from your app interface
As it is easy to imagine, once we have downloaded the corresponding Skype application on the PC, we will need a user account. Therefore, we will have to register with a E-mail adress associated with our name. To say that it is something completely free, as well as many functions that we find here.
Create a Skype address book
It should be noted that the same application allows us, for its use to be more practical and efficient, to create our own skype contact list . This is something that we can do from the tab called Contacts of the main interface of the program which is on the upper left part of it.
In this way, here we find an access called New Contact that allows us to directly add phone numbers, or Skype contacts by entering the partner's email. It is clear that for this second mode, the other user will also have to have his own user account on the platform. Microsoft .
How to communicate in Skype
One of the main utilities that the application Skype or Whatsapp offer us , how could it be otherwise, is the possibility to chat with other users of the platform .
Talk to others from the chat
We will also say that this is a free service that we can use with any of the Skype calendar users, or the phone, who are registered in the Microsoft service.
So, this is something that we can do right from the main user interface of the app. As we see, on the left side we see a tab called Cat , where we click to access the New Chat button and start the communication as such. At this point, it's worth mentioning that there are several ways we can run this chat system from here.
This way we can do group, individual or private chats. For this, we will only have to select the modality that interests us the most at that time, and a list will appear on the screen with the contacts from our calendar who can connect to the new chat, as simple as that. Then from keyboard , we can start by communicating, all for free.
At the bottom of the window, we will see buttons that allow us, as we mentioned earlier, to share contacts at from the calendar, add files to send via the chat, or record a message for the receiver or receivers.
Communicate with the Meeting function
From this same tab that we are commenting on, we have another way of communicating with other users of the platform, which is none other than through Meetings . This option is next to the one mentioned for cats, and it's just as easy to use. To do this, we need to click on the button to the left of New Chat, called Meetings.
By clicking here, we will see that we can invite other users to the virtual meeting we have just established, via a personal link. Therefore, we will only have to copy it to the clipboard so that we can share it with the rest of the users that we are going to add to the meeting, and they accept it to enter the group meeting.
But of course, we won't always be logged into the program we're talking about, so the fourth tab we see is called Notifications . As you can imagine, there you find these messages or attempts to communicate from our contacts while we were offline.
Likewise, a little further down we find a section where the most recent threads are stored so that we can resume them whenever we want. So we will never lose these conversations in the future.
How to download Skype for free
As we mentioned earlier, the Skype app as such is free, but some of the functions it offers us require a payment plan . But with everything and with it, as we have seen before, most of them can be used by simply installing the application, without any expense. Of course, for these communication tasks we can also use d ' other alternatives to Skype .
This is something we can achieve from the official Microsoft page itself, which we access from any Web browser . Therefore, as a first step, to be able to get the version of Skype for desktop systems, you can do it from this link . It is worth mentioning once arrived at this point, that here we find a version for Windows, Mac or Linux.
On the other hand and as we mentioned before, there is a version for mobile devices of the application, in fact two, one for Android de Google and another for iOS .
