Microsoft is working on a new version of Skype to run in Web browsers, and is hiring developers to build it. At least four job ads describe a "Skype for Browsers" project and show that Microsoft is looking for software engineers in London and Prague with "real world experience developing HTML5 UI’s including rich interaction based on JavaScript."

Skype is already integrated with Facebook, with an app including instant messages, voice, and video calls. But Skype for Browsers won't be restricted to Facebook.

"Team Rendezvous at Skype is looking for passionate, team-oriented and self-motivated Developers to help us bring Skype experience on to the Web," Microsoft writes in the job postings. "You will have a chance to integrate existing Skype solutions on to the web with the support of the backend services built from the ground up using [the] latest Microsoft technologies. [The] result of your work will be used by hundreds millions of thankful users worldwide."

Microsoft closed its $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype in October 2011. After the merger, Microsoft finally brought a Skype client to Windows Phone. In addition to building a new Skype client to Web browsers, we've written that Microsoft is likely to integrate the technology into many of its core desktop products.