Skype for Modern Windows gets updated to 2.6, now syncs faster and will be less annoying for calls

Skype has been on a scroll lately with the service greatly improving, especially if you utilize it across many devices. Specifically, since the introduction of messaging syncing, the service has been much easier to use if you're on it all solar day (like we are).

Today, the Skype team has announced that version 2.half dozen of the Modern app for your Windows 8 PC or Surface, is now live in the Store. It's kind of a big update even though information technology just fixes one small matter: ringing.

If you've ever had Skype running on your PC only to accept an incoming telephone call come up in, you may accept heard a few of your devices ringing for that call. That'southward all well and expert as that is how the service should work, the problem was when you answered on one device, the other ones had a trend to keep ringing, seemingly forever. Now with 2.6, that should be fixed:

Got that band? When you selection up a telephone call on any device and your mod Skype is on, the incoming band volition cease much faster. Whether you have Skype on a mobile, in your Outlook.com inbox, desktop, tablet or 2-in-1, Skype calls will sync up wherever you lot choose to take the call from.

Like we said, that'due south an apparently small fix but it's for something that was of swell annoyance for many of usa who use Skype all day for messaging and conversations. There's of course yet room for improvement with Skype, but these last few weeks it feels like the team has finally made a turn around, delivering the product we have all hoped for in 2022.

To go the update now, launch your Microsoft Store app on your PC or tablet, bring up the charms bar (Win + C, or swipe from the correct edge) and select App Update. From there y'all tin select 'Check for updates' and you lot can now force update Skype to version ii.half-dozen to bring that new characteristic. Or head here for the Store link.

Source: Skype blog

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