Welcome, Rick Osterloh
Rick Osterloh has joined Skype as our Head of Consumer Product Management. He’s responsible for the design, strategy and development of our consumer products, including Skype for Windows, Mac and Linux, as well as our paid products and Skype’s presence on the web.
Prior to Skype, he led Motorola’s Android strategy, was responsible for creating MOTOBLUR, and shipped Motorola’s first Android smartphone. Prior to that, he was responsible for Good Technology’s global product offering, product strategy, and product development. And before that, Rick managed enterprise software projects for Fortune 1000 companies at Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group, worked in product management at Amazon.com, and analyzed wireless industry investments for Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers.
Rick has a BS and MS Engineering from Stanford University, and was an Arjay Miller scholar at Stanford Graduate School of Business where he received an MBA.
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Welcome.
I hope that your experience with Linux means that the Linux client will not be left behind the rest of the gang.
Skype use for medical communications can bring a revolution to the field of the Bio Engineering, This will be a great deal.
Welcome! Please make it possible to configure an ordinary ATA like Linksys PAP2 with Skype. And let us install Skype client on any cell phone without using internet but cell phone minutes as we do on Android phones. Add 911 access too.
I am an old Skype fan and customer. I can give you suggestion and let you know what a common consumer likes to have in Skype.
I love Skype. But my credit card company that I am using consider your transactions to be risky. Three times I called the credit card company they always refer my transactions with SKype to be suspicious. Wonder why. I still love Skype. Time to look for another credit card issuer I guess.
We used to have SkypeIn in Norway a short period some years ago. We want it back!
I have waited for this service to be established i Norway, can anyone answer when it will come?
Gunnar J.
Hey Rick,
My company provides broadband wireless service to overseas travelers, and I would love to chat with a bus. dev. guy at Skype about partnering with my company. I see that Skype offers unlimited calling to over 40 countries, and XCom Global’s broadband services are a natural fit for your customers while overseas.
For more details, please visit http://www.xcomglobal.com, or please call me at 858.222.8242.
Thanks,
Ken Herskind
great job.
hey Rick,
I hope you are reading this. you have a problem because I have a problem. I am a blind user (totally blind) on the OS X 10.6 platform. I find I am unable to use skype effectively because there is no way for me to assign key combinations for specific functions (like answering the call, or hanging up. your client is not exactly VoiceOver(tm) compliant. I have posted elsewhere on the blog and even posted a “keyboard navigation for the blind” request in the forums. guess what, 3 weeks and not even a single response.
So rick, what are you going to do about it? do I have to find your office number and call you personally to explain this disparity to me? better yet, perhaps you should get a mac, use voiceover (after being taught the basics) and try and use skype for mac while blindfolded. An interesting education that shall be.
btw, don’t ask me to install windows. I don’t have a copy and I cannot justify spending $149 for one plus $926 for jaws (the screenreader for the blind in windows).
@technomage-hawke thanks for your feedback – I’m sorry you’ve had problems using Skype with VoiceOver. I’ve passed it on to our Mac team.