22 Feb. 2017

• By : UNIQ Solutions

Microsoft Launches 'Made For India' Skype Lite App

Microsoft on Wednesday launched Skype Lite, an exclusive "Made for India" app to provide seamless experience in messaging, audio and video calling even at lower bandwidths. Packed in a 13MB file, the new app is available only for Android devices and is especially designed to save data, Satya Nadella, Indian-born CEO of Microsoft, told the media at the company's "Future Decoded" event here. Skype Lite has data-friendly features such as "tracking data usage" which tells a user about how much data was used. It also categorizes the internet usage into two sections -- the amount of mobile data or Wifi used while using the app with these new features, the app lets a user to share multimedia files without downloading them to the device. "Skype Lite" is an all-in-one app and has functionalities such as integrated calling and SMS by which a user can make it the default calling and messaging app.