Skype Adds Facebook-To-Facebook Calling To Mac, Windows [VIDEO]

Thursday, November 17, 2011 · By Ramin asadi

Today Skype, has announced that users of its PC and Mac clients can now link their Facebook profile to their Skype account to allow users to video their Facebook friends..This builds upon the video chat feature that became available from within Facebook back in July so now users can chat to friends Skype-to-Skype, Skype-to-Facebook or Facebook-to-Facebook.It doesn’t appear to be possible to chat Facebook-to-Skype.
Users can now download Skype 5.4 Beta for Mac and Skype 5.7 Beta for Windows to enable the new Facebook-calling functionality, providing users with an easy way to call their friends from their Skype client and have them answer in the browser.

Initiating a Facebook-to-Facebook call from within Skype is quite easy; all you need to do is connect your Skype and Facebook accounts. Then, select a Facebook friend and hit the video call button in Skype- your friend simply picks up the call from Facebook.
Besides this great new Facebook feature, additional new features added to Skype 5.4 Beta for Mac and Skype 5.7 Beta for Windows including video rendering giving a smoother video experience for Mac users and group screen sharing for Windows users with a Premium subscription (group screen sharing is currently available for Mac users).

You can download Skype 5.4 Beta for Mac or Skype 5.7 Beta for Windows to enjoy new features, as it’s in beta few hiccups are expected.

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