MSN set again in on internettelefonie
The next version of MSN Messenger makes the possible to telephone to fixed and mobile numbers everywhere in the world. Again Microsoft shows to get self with determination foot at bank in the VoIP-market for consumers. Microsoft has closed for this purpose an agreement with telecomcompany MCI, and the fight goes at with the popular SkypeOut-service of eBay-daughter Skype.
The new Microsoft-service gets the name MCI Web Calling and makes part from of Windows Live Messenger, the successor of MSN Messenger. The new Messenger is wrong currently yet in a test phase.
On this moment its single American testers the only that entry have till Web Calling, but in the coming weeks will they the company get of users in Germany, France, Spain and England.
After public tender, they will can telephone via Web Calling to numbers in 220 countries. For calls to countries in western Europe, England, Canada and the United States, a rate of 0,023 dollars counts per minute (0,019 Euros). That is somewhat more than you via SkypeOut pay.
The cooperation between MCI and Microsoft is not the first step direction the VoIP-market that the softwaregiant set. The in April appeared MSN Messenger 7 laid strengthen the emphasis on telephone of pc to pc. That Microsoft a competitor for SkypeOut wanted reboot, became clear with two take-over purchases in the fall. In August, Microsoft the VoIP-business Teleo took about specialized, followed through the Swiss Media-Streams. com, a firm in concise VoIP-services.