Microsoft, e-posta servisi Outlook.com’da bundan böyle Google Chat ve Facebook Chat olmayacağını; bunların yerini artık Skype’ın alacağını duyurdu.
Outlook.com kullanıcılarına gönderilen bir e-postada Microsoft’un yaptığı açıklamaya göre, Outlook.com’da artık Google Chat ve Facebook Chat desteği olmayacak.
Yapılan açıklamada, Google Chat’in kaldırılmasıyla ilgili olarak Google’ın sohbet protokolü üzerinde yaptığı değişiklikleri işaret eden Microsoft, Facebook Chat desteğini neden kestiğini ise belirtmedi.
Yapılan açıklamanın tam metni ise şöyle:
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Dear Outlook.com Customer,
Within the next couple of weeks, we will be discontinuing support for Facebook Chat in Outlook.com. And due to Google’s decision to discontinue the chat protocol used by the Google Talk platform, we can no longer provide Google Chat in Outlook.com. We understand that this may disappoint some of our customers, but we hope that you’ll try Skype for Outlook.com chat, and voice and video calling, so you can take advantage of the more robust ways to keep in touch with friends and family.
This update will not impact the connection to your Facebook and/or Google accounts, which means your People page will stay updated with the latest contact information from the services you’ve connected.
We’re confident that Skype for Outlook.com provides the best experience for chatting and making voice or video calls, right from your inbox, when the conversation warrants richer communication than an email exchange.
Here are the steps to get started:
1. Activate Skype for Outlook.com by clicking on the Messaging icon in your inbox header.
2. Click on the Skype icon to join or sign in. Link your Outlook.com email with a Skype ID if you already have one, or use your Outlook.comaddress to create a new one.
3. Navigate to the People page, and add existing contacts as Skype contacts, or add new contacts. You’re ready to start chatting.
4. To make free Skype to Skype video and voice calls right from your inbox, simply download the plugin.
We remain focused on making Outlook.com the best email service available. Thanks for your understanding and continued use.
Sincerely,
The Outlook.com Team
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Microsoft bu kararı alırken Google’ı suçlasa da, Facebook Chat desteğini kesmesinin ardındaki sebep soru işareti bırakıyor. Ancak öyle görünüyor ki Outlook.com kullanıcıları bundan böyle platformda sadece Skype sohbet sistemini kullanabiliyor olacak.