Bluetooth support for Skype native in Vista?

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I don’t remember seeing this in Windows XP and I’m too lazy to reboot into that partition today, but I caught this in Vista and wanted to share. As I was nosing around my Bluetooth device settings I saw the above dialog box showing that you can natively control Skype calls with Bluetooth headset. If I recall correctly we couldn’t do that in Windows XP with some third party software, but it’s been a while since I Skyped in XP and I could be wrong.

In any case, if you have a hands-free Bluetooth headset and use Skype, check the Audio tab in your Bluetooth Devices dialog in Vista to enable this function. I enabled it on my Q1P and made some test calls with Skype, but I had to manually set my Skype audio device to the Motorola HS820 for some reason. According to the Windows Help for this function, Skype should automatically recognize and route calls to the device so you may have better luck with your particular headset.

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