UK and US Get Skype Video Messaging
Now you can send a video message to your friends and family using Skype.
Skype this week launched a new feature that allows users to leave short video messages for their contacts. Only available for Mac, iPhone, and Android users for the moment, the feature appears in the "Conversations" drop down menu and allows users to record three minute videos that they can then send to their contacts. The first 20 messages are free. After that, you'll need a Skype Premium subscription to use the feature.
Speaking to The Verge, a Skype spokesperson gave no indication as to when Windows users can expect to see similar functionality on their version of Skype.
"We’re pleased that there’s interest for Video Messaging to come to Skype for Windows and Skype for Windows 8," The Verge quotes a Skype spokesperson as saying. "We’ll let you know when we expand the service to the platform."
What's more, The Verge reports that the Video Messages feature is only available for US and UK users for the moment, and that a rollout to other countries is expected in the future. However, we tried it in Canada and it seems to work just fine, so let us know if you're able to use it outside of the USA and UK.

Not that I'll ever use it but still.
Not that I'll ever use it but still.
And now they've decided adding video messages that I assume are going to be kept on their servers and take tons more space.
Yeah that annoys the crap out of me. I use skype all the time and even have a premuim account... and the fact they they don't store plain text on their servers is stupid. Lots of free to play online games can do it just fine, you would think that one of the worlds most video/messaging/phone client would do it too. Hell they already have voice messages you can leave in skype...