Skype VP Dan Neary, the company's Vice President for the Asia Pacific region, has said this week that it's "not developing software for the new Windows Mobile software due later this year."
The Skype man has not elucidated on why this decision has been made. But it is quite a blow for Microsoft, with Skype providing its VoIP app to most other smartphone platforms.
Instead, Neary stressed that Skype was developing new offerings for the iPhone, iPad and Android based phones.
If Skype doesn't appear on Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 then it is a major competitive disadvantage.
However, this is not to say things might change in the future, as this is not an 'official' announcement that Skype is not going to support Microsoft's new mobile platform.
Possibilities
"We explore rigorously opportunities presented by new mobile platforms, and Windows Mobile 7 is no exception. However, we don't discuss future platform developments, and have no further information to offer at this time."
We might not see Skype on Windows Phone 7 any sooner, but I'm sure there will be in future.
sources : Tech Radar
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