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Originally Posted by Laridae
That's true, but not surprising really giving the competitive nature of the companies involved. On the Chrome you have to use Google's Hangouts for videoconferencing, of course. I wouldn't expect to see Skype any time soon but at least it's possible to conference from an Apple if you first d/l the Hangouts app from their app store.
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Only recently not surprising though, which in itself is surprising. Skype is, after all, available for Mac, iOS, Android, Blackberry, 6 variants of Linux, some landline phones, TVs, Blu-ray players, and PlayStation.
I don't know if all those were available before Microsoft bought Skype, but they're being actively supported. But it appears they have no plans to support ChromeOS. Or if they do, they're keeping it very quiet.
It's also worth pointing out that there are at least five other video chat solutions available for the Chromebooks from the Chrome webstore, so Google aren't deliberately restricting the platform to Google Hangouts.
Graham