Despite the fact that Skype has long reinforced emoticons and emojis, Microsoft is compelling it to a whole new level by adding provisions for Mojis, or in layman's term, short video clips from most popular movies and TV shows.
Microsoft's Francesca Bassa describes in a post to the Skype Big Blog that every now and then, real life feels like it is straight out of a flick and mere words just do not do it with righteousness. Now, when you direct a communication on Skype, you can brand your chat and pull in your favourite TV or film flashes to do the talking for you. Mojis are short videos from your most loved films and TV spectacles that you can put straight into a Skype chat when words are not enough to capture for that 'oh no', 'ha-ha' or 'yikes' mood.
Mojis are the Skype's own version of animated GIFs that people occasionally send as funny replies to tweets, status updates and other posts. Thus, emoticons and emojis are two different messaging trends. That is, emoticons are typographical images of facial jargons used to carry emotions in morally textual circumstances. The most common of its kind is the popular 'smiley face'.
Emojis, in the interim, are concrete images that can substitute emoticons in more stylish communications solution. So in its place of a colon and parenthesis for a smiley face or a sad face, you can have a genuine image of a face that expresses joy and sadness.
Like some other communications app or program, Skype will actually use an emoji instead of an emoticon when possible. And now, Skype is able to support a new type of expressions -- through its cool and fun Mojis.
According to Microsoft, it has wind-swept the records and selected the hilarious, weirdest and most iconic moments from some of the best TV and films out there. It is teaming with Universal, Disney, BBC and other studios all over the globe. Not to mention that even in this early release, there are Mojis from movies like Despicable Me, Bridesmaids, Pitch Perfect, Jurassic Park and The Muppets. More of it are all expected to come soon.
