Last year, rumors hit the airwaves that Skype was going to release a native application for Windows Phone sometime in late 2011. That didn’t quite happen, even with Microsoft’s acquisition of the popular VoIP service in October of that year.
You can thank Joe Belfiore, Microsoft corporate vice president for Window Phone program management, for the scheduling mix-up: He said that Skype was going to hit Windows Phone in Fall of 2011 during a keynote speech at Microsoft’s Mix11 conference in April of that year.
This time around, it’s a Skype executive doing the promising – well, technically a Microsoft executive as well. While there’s no specific timeline attached to his statements, the mention that “Microsoft is working on a Windows Phone product” in relation to Skype now puts vice president of products Rick Osterloh on the firing line. And Windows Phone owners will know exactly where to direct their complaints should Osterloh’s claims that a Skype product is “coming out soon” not come to pass.
Full Story: PC Mag
