{"id":318229,"date":"2019-08-30T09:35:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T07:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=318229"},"modified":"2019-08-30T09:36:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T07:36:03","slug":"big-changes-coming-to-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/318229-big-changes-coming-to-skype.html","title":{"rendered":"Big changes coming to Skype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skype has <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.skype.com\/news\/2019\/08\/29\/new-skype-features-boost-productivity-enrich-chat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> a number of major changes for its desktop and mobile applications, overhauling the platform&#8217;s messaging features.<\/p>\n<p>The company has unveiled new messaging features which include the ability to display multiple photos and videos, preview media files, and save draft messages.<\/p>\n<p>Users are also able to bookmark messages and access them in a dedicated folder, and it is now much easier to send multiple photos or videos to other users.<\/p>\n<p>The desktop version of Skype now includes a split window option, which lets you view your contact list and messages in separate windows.<\/p>\n<p>These features are available on the latest version of Skype across all platforms.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/318225-microsoft-launches-dark-mode-for-office.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft launches dark mode for Office<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skype has announced a number of major changes for its desktop and mobile applications, overhauling the platform&#8217;s messaging features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":173826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[60731,52101,1089,6869],"class_list":["post-318229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-changes","tag-messages","tag-skype","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}