A lot of people use Skype to communicate with family and friends hundreds and thousands of miles away. Skype uses a “service” called VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) to help maintain long distance relationships of all kinds. Up until this point you were only able to video with a maximum of one person at a single instance, but with the new Beta 5 you can now chat with multiple friends, co-workers, family, ext. Now you have to keep in mind that it is still in beta and that its not going to be “as stable” as currently released versions of Skype 4. There, besides multi-video chatting, has been some other updates like the “on a call” GUI has changed to have a blue and black gradient just like the video chat has. Smaller things like a different GUI for screen sharing , upon many other small but noticeable changes have been made. If you would like to try out the beta go to http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get-skype/on-your-computer/windows/beta/ and download and install it.
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Wow! Excellant post!
The number one thing is video chat. This will come in handy for a lot of people. But I wonder how it’ll bet on bandwidth. Have you tried it at all, Marc?
And by the way, try to keep the text aligned to the left. Just doesn’t look good when you do it that way.
It wasn’t meant to be center aligned but I don’t think it looks too bad!
Yeah, you probably just did that when centering the image.
We have not tryed video but chatting, is going fine as normal and there are some improvements to the screen sharing. (more than just GUI)
Yeah, screen sharing was always lacking in Skype. Glad they made some improvements.
I just think video chatting would take a lot of bandwidth which thus making it slow.
http://screensnapr.com/u/536ngj.png We set this up just for you! Yes Joe and Morgan had to tape there fingers like that but here you go, its not laggy at all!