News · 15 Jan 2012 · MTW Editorial Team
You got to love delays. Unfortunately there’s nothing we can do about them especially when the company decides to stay silent about a product. As you all already know, Skype for Windows Phone was announced back in April of last year and was supposedly set to launch alongside Mango last fall. Nothing happened, Nokia’s then flagship product, the Lumia 800 didn’t even feature a front facing camera so Microsoft may have decided to act as nothing was missing. That’s until this week CES where Skype’s VP of Products Rick Osterloh just let a “coming soon” slip in a interview with….Microsoft. Video after the break:
Coming soon can mean anything from next month to next quarter so you will all have to be patient and wonder why it took so long. Noting surprising though when you think about it. Microsoft can’t even get its own Skydrive application to integrate nicely with the Office Hub embedded in the OS (did you notice that you can only open Docs through IE?). Anyway, the first iteration of Skype for Windows Phone will be, as first unveiled, a third party application before it gets fully integrated later down the road in Windows Phone 8 aka Apollo. Speaking of delays..Where are PhotoSynth and Layar ?
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