Skype announced today the release of some very cool toolbars including one that interacts with Microsoft Office. When you’ve got it installed, you can click on any phone number inside a Word, Excel or Powerpoint file and Skype Out will call that number! It recognizes fax numbers too, and won’t call those. Very cool.
Beta versions of toolbars for Outlook, Outlook Express and Thunderbird were released in beta last week. Those do the same thing with numbers in emails and make it easy to follow up emails with Skype IM. Two weeks ago the company released public versions of Firefox and IE toolbars that will call numbers on web pages and add country codes based on the page host’s ISP.
The company says it estimates that 30% of Skype users use it for business and these toolbars are targetting that audience.
Of course these are all for Windows only! The closest thing to love for Mac users is this Tuesday’s version 1.5 of Skype for Mac.
None the less, innovation continues – even post acquisition. Speaking of that acquisition, see also, even if just for laughes: Skype Founders Use eBay Cash To Atone For Their Kazaa Sins
I think the toolbar for word will be awesome. Even more so for outlook. Could definitely be useful for business. Also, I think they should develop one for pdf readers as well.
I understand how cool this will be but how does this fit into Microsoft’s business strategy?
To me, the firefox plugin seems most lucarative (from Skype’s point of view) for where else can you find more numbers than a webpage.
Pretty good. Saddly, In China, skype can connect with the ordinary phone only in some big city like Shanghai,Beijing and Guangzhou.
Does any one realize that calling from Outlook is already provided by Vonage. This is breaking news, but not “new: technology. Just so everyone is aware.
I tried the Outlook Toolbar a few weeks ago and my complet system is suffering till now.
I seldem use skype, and I do not like there are many toolbar on office or IE.
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