Microsoft today announced they have completed the acquisition of Skype. It is no surprise, therefore, find that the current installer Skype has abandoned a feature.
"In new version of Skype offers we have removed the Google product flow installation of Skype," Skype said in the release notes for Skype 5.6 for Windows.
The question is whether the new command will give Skype the blessed plugin that automatically turns all phone numbers on web pages seen in dialable options (write anyway), entitled to bond with just one click and using Skype (obviously ) as a way to make the call. I think disabling this plugin is the first thing I do after installing Skype on some machine.
It also remains to be seen whether Skype will get a bar of Bing soon. Admittedly, it makes sense for Microsoft to adopt this strategy, although it is irritating to the geek community.
