Skype heeft vandaag met versienummer 3.5.0.158 een nieuwe bètarelease van zijn VoIP-programma voor Windows uitgebracht. Met dit programma kunnen gratis gesprekken worden gevoerd met andere Skype-gebruikers, over het algemeen met een verbazend goede kwaliteit. Ook is het mogelijk om naar vaste en mobiele telefoons te bellen, tegen een kleine vergoeding. Naast de Windows-versie worden er ook versies voor Linux, Mac OS X en Pocket PC ontwikkeld, deze lopen technische gezien echter enigszins achter op de Windows-versie. De tweede bètarelease van versie 3.5 van Skype voor Windows wordt met het volgende changelog geleverd:
New features:Changes:
- Add video to mood and chat message
 - Video snapshot
 - What's New Guide
 - Support for Firewire Digital cameras
 Bugs fixed:
- Change SkypeMe status to Online for users under 16
 - Updated all language files
 - IE Plugin updated (2.2.0.98)
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- When menu was opened it needed 2 clicks to answer a call on tray notification
 - Latvian installer did not work
 - Installer did not remember custom install location
 - Profile phone number text was cropped
 - Autoredial attempts were wrongly counted
 - Skype contacts were shown as SkypeOut contacts when sending SMS
 - Accessibility: Not all buttons in profile were selectable via Tabstop
 - Multiple device indicators were overlaying sometimes
 - Status icon was shown wrongly on some machines
 - Unable to copy emoticons while writing chat message
 - Chat did not open from right place when person has extended keyboard navigation enabled
 - Selecting text with double click did not work as expected when there were links in message
 - Skype sometimes crashed on call transfer
 - Duplicate entries in contact list
 - Contact groups scrollbar visible when groups not expanded
 - Voicemail event count does not decrease after listening to it
 - Sound error not played on some actions
 - German match case option in chat shown in black
 - Cyrillic characters were shown wrongly on some places
 - Chat messages were shown with too much indent
 - Long usernames displayed wrongly in Events Panel
 - Skype displayes blanks under Audio Settings
 - Name not shown on tray alert on 1680x1050 resolution
 - Call forwarded icon not displayed
 - Changing participants view was not possible in chat window
 - Add to SkypeOut did not work as expected on some rare cases
 - Options accessibility has usability problems with screen readers
 - Chat window content was too wide
 - Chat controls did not appear instantly
 - Video calls should be better on relayed connections
 - Video calls with integrated Intel video cards had green flicker
 - It was not possible to select default audio device
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