Skype Lands. . .in Outlook

We've been wondering what Microsoft would do with Skype and Microsoft Instant Messenger ever since they bought Skype. Now we know!  Skype is going to be part of Outlook. 

This brings Hotmail within grasp of feature parity with Gmail, and XBox will have an integrated chat\call option.  We'll have to wait and see what this means for it's enterprise Lync client. Stay tuned!