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.