Skype's HOMEPAGE:.www.skype.com
Skype's TYPE: (Freeware)
Skype's DOWNLOAD: Skype 4.2.0.141 Beta
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Skype's SIZE: 22.12 MB
Skype's GOOGLE HITS:47 millions +
One of the initial names for the project was "Sky peer-to-peer", which was then abbreviated to "Skyper". However, some of the domain names associated with "Skyper" were already taken. Dropping the final "r" left the current title "Skype", for which domain names were available.
Skype has experienced rapid growth in popular usage since the launch of its services. The company was acquired by eBay in September 2005 for $2.6 billion.eBay has written Skype down to $1.7 billion on its books and announced a public stock offering for 2010 to spin Skype off as a separate company.Some media outlets have characterized the proposed sale and ongoing provision of Skype as being under threat, because of a software licensing dispute with the original creators.On September 1, 2009, a group of investors led by Silver Lake bought 65% of Skype for $1.9 billion.-wikipedia
Skype 4.1.0.141 Beta Release notes:
+ Video
- The Video resolution is now changing accordingly based on the available bandwidth allowing up to QQVGA/8fps with low bandwidth conditions.
- Video quality was not great after hosting a video call.
- The "Take video snapshot" button was always enabled on Win 2000
- Users with Intel 965 Express onboard graphics cards had artefacts on screen
- Skype crashed in video options or when on a video call for users with Sony Vaio notebooks with virtual Bluetooth video cameras
- If a camera was in use by another application no message was being displayed in the Video Settings at the appropriate time
- Screen sharing did not stop working when the sharing partner closed Skype during the session.
- Video froze for some users
- A still image was sometimes displayed
+ Calling
- It was possible to add the same contact several times to a group conversation
- The DTMF tones were not transmitted on Skype-to-Skype call transfer
- It used to be possible to leave people voicemails who had blocked your contact request in the past
- Auto-answer did not work for unauthorized contacts.
- A group call that included at least one participant on a mobile phone or landline could not be put on hold
+ Chat
- In compact mode the focus of the cursor was sometimes not in the Instant Messaging area after the conversation window was restored from the taskbar.
+ Contacts
- Outlook contacts were saved together with Skype contacts when backing up the contact list.
+ Improvements
- Improved incoming authorization requests handling.
- Added 'Answer', 'Ignore' and 'Hang up' functionalities to the Skype system tray icon.
- Added 'Try again' button for failed SMS.
+ Miscellaneous
- Skype froze in cases of high level disk activity or when hard drive was busy.
- Improved client robustness against Disk IO related errors
- Clearing History did not clear the File Transfers until the Skype client had been restart
- An error message was displayed when hovering over the Default/Compact view, Minimize, Maximize and Close buttons while the Skype windows were out of focus.
- Skype did not fully honour 'MemoryOnly' switch.
- When more than one identical USB device was connected only one was listed in the devices list.
- Improved online status reliability.
- Initiating file transfer using drag and drop to active the field did not work.
- Keyboard navigation was not fully working in installer window
- When reconnecting a device to the computer, Skype detected it as a new device
- Skype sometimes did not remember the preferred audio settings.
- Improved online status reliability for people on the same network
- Skype crashed for some people when opening the video options
- Users with a large amount of Skype history sometimes found that Skype took longer than normal to start.
- Wrong error message displayed on the avatar of group call participants
- The eBay Browser Highlighter has been removed from the Skype installer.
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