Skype 4.0.0.227/ Skype 4.1.0.130 Beta/ Skype 3.8.0.188

Skype is the next phenomenon from the people who brought you KaZaA. Just like KaZaA, Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users – not to share files this time, but to talk and chat with your friends. The technology is extremely advanced – but super simple to use… You’ll be making free phone calls to your friends in no time!

Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. Skype created a little piece of software that makes communicating with people around the world easy and fun. With Skype you can say hello or share a laugh with anyone, anywhere. And if both of you are on Skype, it’s free.
Skype is available in 28 languages and is used in almost every country around the world. Skype generates revenue through its premium offerings such as making and receiving calls to and from landline and mobile phones, as well as voicemail and call forwarding. Skype, based in Luxembourg, has relationships with a growing network of hardware and software providers and is an eBay company.

Features:
• Free unlimited worldwide phone calls to anyone else on Skype, anywhere in the world
• Skype video (webcam), see who you are talking to with free video calls
• Chat with up to 100 people in group chats
• Conference call with up to four people for free
• Call ordinary phones with SkypeOut
• Superior sound quality – better than your regular phone
• Your calls are encrypted “end-to-end” for superior privacy
• Friends list shows you when your Skype friends are online and ready to talk or chat
• Works with all firewall, NAT and routers – nothing to configure!
• Super-simple and easy to use
• Based on cutting edge peer-to-peer technology developed by the creators of Kazaa and Joltid In order to use Skype for Windows software, your computer must meet the following minimum system requirements:
• PC running Windows 2000 or XP
• 400 MHz processor
• 128 MB RAM
• 15 MB free disk space on your hard drive
• Sound Card, speakers and microphone
• Internet Connection (either dial-up: minimum 33.6 Kbps modem, or any broadband: cable, DSL, etc.)

Changes in Skype 4.0.0.227, 03.06.2009:
* bugfix: Configuration settings for some users were being lost when upgrading from 3.x to 4.0
* bugfix: Fixes for miscellaneous crashes
* bugfix: Fixes for Video rendering issues
* bugfix: Fixed “Disk I/O error” on sign-in
* bugfix: Skype occassionally crashed when shutting down

Changes in Skype 4.1.0.130 Beta, 27.05.2009:
* feature: Screen sharing
* feature: Accessibility
* feature: Skype name highlighting on webpages
* feature: Free call phone number highlighting on webpages
* feature: Contacts sending
* feature: Birthday reminders
* improvement: Audio and Video engine updated
* improvement: Ability to import more contacts from more source
* improvement: Updated Skype for Internet Explorer plugin
* improvement: Updated Skype for Firefox plugin
* bugfix: Skype Internet Explorer plugin did not work with Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7
* bugfix: New Audio device communicator message appeared on every start-up
* bugfix: Dialpad did not open when starting a call, but opened when call was connected
* bugfix: Some menu items in Hebrew and Arabic language showed out as ????
* bugfix: Skype crashed on shutdown sometimes
* bugfix: GDI+ error was displayed when running Skype on Windows 7
* bugfix: Not all audio devices were shown out under audio options
* bugfix: When copying longer text message from one Instant Message to another then you did not have possibility to edit it’s controls
* bugfix: Skype crashed when dragging and dropping quoted chat messages
* bugfix: Quick-filtering sometimes highlighted contacts incorrectly
* bugfix: Profile text was cut off when person has emoticon on their ‘about me’ text
* bugfix: A user was unable to edit contacts phone number more than once
* bugfix: Skype showed that webcam is present, but busy when it was disconnected for some Creative webcams
* bugfix: It was not possible to remove duplicate entries from audio devices list
* bugfix: On client upgrade “View technical release notes for this update” link did not work.
* All language localizations updated: Bulgarian – Nikolina Filipova & Nikolay Filipov, Czech – Petr Silon, Dutch – Kees Koenders, Estonian – Viljar Sepp & Eve Loopere, Greek – Panagiotis Sidiropoulos http://www.magenta.gr, French – Fabrice IMPERIAL & Bruno Lépaulard, German – Claudius Henrichs & Dick Schiferli, Hungarian – Mark Bender & Laszlo Koncz & Gabor Stefanik, Italian – Daniele Conte, Latvian – Intars Students, Lithuanian – Viktoras Kriukovas, Norwegian – Stig Auestad, Polish – Karol Szastok, Portuguese-Portugal – Francisco Ferreira, Romanian – Péter Henning and Mónika Iancu, Simplified Chinese – Della Wang (TOM.com), Traditional Chinese – Carlos Lee (PChome), Turkish – Ömer Emin Dede