Communicate with your friends via text or voice calls. Simply call landline numbers and mobile phones directly from your PC.
Skype is my first choice for video chatting. High audio-quality is the main feature that distinguishes it from other Internet telephony applications. It also uses very little Internet data.
Skype works on PC, tablets, and smartphones that have Internet access. Calling from one Skype account to another is free. But to call from Skype to a phone number, you have to spend prepaid charges.
Skype was originally created by independent developers, and was later acquired by Microsoft. Since then, a lot of improvements were done to the program, including a revamp of its interface. The present version comes with large-size emoticons. Facebook integration allows you to chat with your friends, and call them easily using their phone numbers or email-IDs in profiles. After each call, it asks you to rate the audio-quality in one to five stars. This feedback is used to constantly improve the service.
Although Skype has all these nice features, it has certain annoying bugs. It synchronizes chat-messages among a PC and a mobile phone marking them as ‘not-read’. Hence, I get confused where I actually left the conversation, when I switch between them. Still, Skype is a great tool for low-cost communication.
v8.7 [Mar 7, 2021]
- Robot dancing: Want to keep up on what's new in Skype, right in Skype? We've added a robot friend to help you out there. Learn more about Skype bots.
- Keeping out the riff-raff: You can lock your Meet Now meetings to make sure only the right people are there. Learn more about Meet Now in Skype.
- Look behind you: Wish your backgrounds had a little more life? Good news, you can now add animated backgrounds in your Skype video calls. Learn more about changing your background in Skype video calls.
- Bug fixes and stability improvements. We've really cleaned up around here and sent some bugs running for the hills.
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