You can also right-click the thread and choose Delete or Mute. Select the conversation(s) you want to delete and click Delete. To delete an entire conversation thread, open the Messaging app and click Select.

Type your message and hit the send button, which looks like the top-down view of a paper airplane. To send a group message, add multiple contacts to the To line. To send a message to an existing contact, open the Messaging app and click New message and type in the name of the person you want to send the message to. This will open the Skype video app, which will show you suggested friends (based on your People contact list) and allow you to search for Skype contacts via full name, Skype name or email address. To add someone to your contact list, open the Messaging app and click the. You can only send messages to Skype contacts. If you're chatting with someone on Skype video and you want to send them a text-based message, the new Messaging app will open in a separate window, instead of as a sidebar to the video chat. Because Microsoft really wants you to see the Messaging app as a texting alternative - not just an extension of Skype video chat - a separate app from Skype video and Phone.

With the new Messaging app, you can 'text' anyone from your Windows 10 device, providing they also have Skype installed.

(Over-the-top messaging is a data-based alternative to texting - think Whatsapp, Line, and iOS's iMessage.) Microsoft wants you to use Skype Messaging - simply titled 'Messaging' in Windows 10 - as your main over-the-top messaging app.

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