That means you can make overseas phone calls from your smartphone without paying the high international rates demanded by most mobile phone providers. Skype calls to phones work over the Internet or mobile broadband from a smartphone.

The main advantage of Skype calling is for international calls. The calls are cheap, though regular phone plans have made the Skype savings less than they once were. The receiver just answers their phone as usual and doesn’t know you’re calling from a computer. Landline or mobile, though the rates vary. Skype can call almost any regular number, anywhere in the world. This has been a Skype feature for a long time and very handy it can be. Skype can call regular phone numbers from your computer or smartphone. Skype also has SMS and translation features not possible (yet) in Meet Now. Skype can call regular phones (landline or mobile) with Microsoft 365 customers getting an hour of ‘free’ calls. Certainly, Meet Now has features not available in Skype, especially screen sharing and PowerPoint presentations.īut Meet Now is missing one important option that’s in Skype and special relevance to Microsoft 365/Office 365 customers. The rise of Meet Now has led to speculation that Skype is going to be dropped by Microsoft. There’s already a Teams for Home, Teams is now for families and ‘real’ people Windows 11 will likely include a ‘Meet Now’ button.īoth Teams and Meet Now are being targeted at both business and personal users. It’s linked to Teams but Microsoft is pushing it hard with buttons in Outlook (online and Windows). Meet Now is Microsoft’s newer computer-to-computer calling and virtual conferencing service.

Also two other features in Skype but not Meet Now plus another reason that Microsoft doesn’t like talking about. There’s a major gap between Meet Now in Teams and Skype which means you’ll want to keep both.

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