In a blog post published on Thursday, Microsoft Skype team has revealed that the company's Skype chat service has been integrated with business collaboration platform Slack.

The new integration between Skype and Slack services is currently available in preview. As a result of the integration, users of Slack will get the ability to make voice as well as video calls via Skype from within their Slack threads.

The Skype chat feature can be set up by Slack users by enabling the 'add to Slack' button from the Skype website. Once the feature has been enabled, Slack users can sign in to the Skype calling feature with the help of their Slack credentials.

Upon the completion of the set-up process, Slack users can initiate Skype voice and video calls in the same way as they make other commands in Slack. To set up a Skype 'group' call, Slack users have to type "/skype" to allow others to participate in a chat via link from within Slack's apps for mobile and desktop.

About the newly-announced integration between Skype and Slack, the Skype team said in the blog post: "We're excited to introduce the preview of the integration to teams on Slack and we can't wait to let you try it."