Your address book, in this case, is Windows 10's People app - a 'master' contact list that can draw from your Microsoft account, Google account, and iCloud account.Īdd contacts lets you search for a Skype user by full name, Skype username or email address (but not by phone number).

Suggested contacts is where you will find Skype contacts who are in your address book but not on your Skype contacts list. button, which is where you'll find Settings and About. The Skype video app features four menu buttons in the upper left corner of the window: Suggested contacts, Add contacts, Phonebook, and the. If you choose to postpone this step, you can always find it again by opening the Skype video app and clicking the. The app will also ask you if you'd like it to search through your phonebook and add friends to your contact list. When you sign into Skype on Windows 10, your Skype contacts will be ported over. While Skype's traditional desktop program can get a little overwhelming, the new Skype video app might be too minimalistic, though the simplicity does allow you to really focus on video-chatting. The Skype video interface is extremely simple - much simpler than Skype's traditional desktop program, which combines all of Skype's features, along with myriad settings and tweaks, in one window. Skype video is, as you've probably figured out, for video-chatting with your Skype contacts. Microsoft has broken Skype up into three different apps in Windows 10: Skype video, Messaging, and Phone (Skype video is the only app that bears the Skype name).

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