Skype may be taking new look and feel cues from the Windows 8 interface formerly known as Metro.
New client versions of Skype are in the works with a few notable enhancements, The Verge reports. One such is a new UI that borrows from the Windows 8 interface. Skype is now testing this change, but could take it a few steps further in future releases, according to The Verge.
Also reportedly new to Skype: a video messaging feature that lets users send prerecorded videos, which their contacts can then view when they hop online.
In 2008, Microsoft beta tested a similar feature called
Windows Live Video Messages. But the company pulled the plug on that application in 2010, and instead outfitted Windows Live Messenger with its own offline capabilities last year.
