Microsoft to add Skype-powered group chats to Office Online

Office Online users will soon be able to start a chat while using Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Word.

Office Online users will soon be able to start a chat while using Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Word.

According to PC World, Microsoft says users will be able to continue any chats started in Office Online on Skype on the desktop or their smartphone after the file is closed.

With the addition of this new feature, Microsoft intends to make its services into cross-platform tools.