Microsoft soon intends to begin testing a new type of Skype account focused on individual remote entrepreneurship: tutoring, online consulting, and so on..

Skype for private tutors.

Skype will have a special type of account - Skype Professional Account - for people who use this messenger for individual entrepreneurship: remote tutoring, master classes, consulting, briefing, etc..

A new type of accounts will combine the classic options of direct communication with the calendar, mail and payment system.

In addition to this, the account will provide for the creation of an extended profile of its owner with detailed information about its services, which, in fact, will become an independent microsite.

Users of the new account type will be able to import the entire contact list from their account, while for his opponents when communicating with him through his new account there will be no changes.

At the moment, the official Skype blog says that the new type of account was originally designed only for the desktop version of the messenger. In the test mode, a new service is planned to be launched in the US. At least during this period it will be free. It can be used by a limited number of enthusiasts. To do this, they will need to fill out a form in their account.

Recent changes in the fate of Skype.

Note that this announcement actually takes place against the backdrop of a recent message from the owner of the messenger, the company Microsof, which at the end of September 2017.

announced that it intends to replace the corporate messenger Skype for Business with another service for business communication - Microsoft Teams, launched less than a year ago.

Skype for Business was created in 2015. based on the previous Microsoft corporate messenger - Lync. The launch of Microsoft Teams was in itself a sign that Skype for Business did not last long, wrote The Verge in September. At the moment, Teams can already use most of its functionality.