Microsoft updates Skype Preview for Windows 10 Insiders with texting from your PC

Microsoft has been toying with bringing texting functionality to buy windows 7 PCs for a while now, and also the company is still trying to puzzle out a great way. As promised, Microsoft has updated Skype Preview for Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile users in the Windows Insider Program with texting support. You can download the most recent version now in the Windows Store.

The texting relay feature allows users to transmit and receive SMS and MMS messages from the Windows 10 PC. Skype enables you to view new messages because they arrive and react to them out of your computer. You can send and receive texts, participate in group chats, and share photos, all within the same view as your Skype conversations.

You will need the most recent Skype Preview on your Windows phone and PC. Once that's done, perform the following:

On your Windows phone, launch Skype Preview, visit settings and choose "Make Skype your default messaging app." On your Windows PC, launch Skype Preview, go to settings and choose "Enable Skype about this device to sync my SMS messages."

The new feature is going to be available more broadly "over the next couple of months," but nonetheless like a preview. For months, Microsoft had been experimenting with making the Messaging app for buy office 2013 Mobile support texting across all your devices. However the company killed it so that Skype could champion the functionality.

While it definitely is sensible to consolidate the functionality into the Skype app, it's using the company excruciatingly long to make it happen. There's still no release date when ever to anticipate the functionality, as well as it seems to be limited to Windows 10 Mobile. That's very frustrating considering that Cortana for Android supports missed call alerts, texting, and reminders showing up your cheap office 2013 professional PC. This only further confuses what Windows 10 users should rely on if they want to access texting on their computers.