Skype Readies Windows 8 Metro App

When made commercially available later this year, Windows 8 should include a Skype Metro app as well, recent job posts on the company’s website suggest.

The company's website shows that Skype is looking to hire developers to get started with the building of a Metro application that will be based on C# and JavaScript/HTML5.

Two job posts have recently emerged on the company’s website, both of them pointing in the same direction: a Skype app for Windows Metro is coming.

“The Consumer Engineering team at Skype is looking for passionate, team-oriented and self-motivated developers to help us build Skype client software for new Windows 8 platform,” Skype notes.

“You will have a chance to build new Skype client software from the ground up using latest Microsoft technologies focusing on JavaScript/HTML5. Result of your work will be used by hundreds millions of thankful users worldwide.”

The other announcement is formulated precisely the same, only that it mentions C#. You can have a look at them here and here.

“You will closely cooperate with colleagues developing Skype cross platform core library in Tallinn, Estonia and audio/video team in Stockholm, Sweden,” the job posts read.

Clearly, it does not come too much as a surprise that Skype is preparing a Metro application for Windows 8. Both of them are Microsoft products, and the Redmond-based company is keen on making its software work together.

What remains to be seen, however, is the level of integration that Skype will feature on Windows 8 as a Metro application and whether there will be differences between the C# and JavaScript/HTML5 flavors of the app that Skype is set to deploy.

Skype for Windows 8 Metro might be included as the default VoIP/video calling application on tablet PCs running under the upcoming platform, which also makes a lot of sense. After all, Android tablets available today can already offer Skype video calling to their users.