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Microsoft's plans to bring Skype to the Xbox appear well underway, if job postings for positions in a new "Skype Xbox Engineering Team" are anything to go by. The software giant is seeking a software development engineer and an engineering manager to join the London-based team. After acquiring Skype for $8.5bn in 2011, you'd …

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  1. James 51

    Isn't there a video conference option already in for knectic?

  2. JDX Gold badge

    Win 8 dev experience

    Come on, it's bad enough when recruiters want "3 years' experience with Visual Studio 2011". MS should at least know it's not released yet ;)

  3. Andrew 63
    FAIL

    Or they could just sell it back to a company that won't break it...

    .... Sod trying to get it on xbox in other words.

    Since they've got their grubby hands on it, its now become a classic bit of MS crap that is broken. Skype was never perfect I know, but its now crippled with MS code.

    My android app doesn't work at all now with video like it used to.

    Christ knows what will happen to Skype overall if they try an incorporate xbox into the mix.

    1. Gio Ciampa
      FAIL

      Re: Or they could just sell it back to a company that won't break it...

      Ditto the Linux version - which mysteriously stopped being able to share screens with the Windows version... right after the first post-MS update...

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