Skype launches a new update for its Apps on Android

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the demand for voice and video communication platforms, chatting, instant messaging and video conferencing has increased dramatically, especially the recent ones such as Zoom, which witnessed a significant increase in the number of users, which is what put it in competition With much older platforms like Microsoft's Skype

It seems that Microsoft, in turn, is looking to add new features to maintain its position in this field and ensure competition with Zoom and other other applications, and in this context the Skype platform has revealed a new update that will come with a number of features on its platform for audio and video communication and it is related to the version 868 on the Android platform,

According to Microsoft, the new version 868 will come with an important feature, which is the background blurring feature during meetings and communications, which is the feature available to competitors as it is available on Skype itself but only for other platforms, and finally users of the Android platform can access it

Although the new update was not major and therefore did not bring many or modern features, it will also expand the custom interaction picker that was added with version 864 and it gives users the ability to add more types of interactions, and according to Microsoft, the new update has started Employing him gradually starting from the beginning of this month