Skype heeft een update uitgebracht voor versie 4.2 van zijn voip-client voor Windows. Met Skype is het mogelijk om door middel van tekst, spraak of beeld, of een combinatie daarvan, over een internetverbinding met andere Skype-gebruikers te communiceren. In versie 4.2 is onder andere de geluidskwaliteit verbeterd in situaties waar slechts beperkte bandbreedte beschikbaar is, kan van 720p high definition video gebruik worden gemaakt en is de standaardinstelling voor instant messaging nu 'alleen voor contacten op mijn lijstje', om zo de privacy beter te waarborgen. Versie 4.2.0.163 is uitgebracht om de volgende problemen te verhelpen:
AudioCalling
- Deactivated the keyboard tapping removal feature during conference calls because of complaints from blind people and gamers.
Call Quality Indicator
- Improved call stability between two Skype 4.2 for Windows users.
- Fixed issue causing consecutive call drops right after call start.
General
- The preferred microphone settings were not saved when the device was set from the Call Quality Indicator device selection list.
IM
- In some languages Skype showed an error message "unterminated tag" which prevented users from logging into Skype.
Screen sharing
- The IM notification icon was not correctly displayed during a full screen video call.
Video
- Screen sharing from Skype 4.2 to Skype 4.0 or lower did not show video to the receiver if their computer had Pentium 4 or Pentium 3 processor.
Voicemail
- The High Quality Video logo sometimes flashed during a video call.
- Outgoing video froze when Skype raised the outgoing video quality.
- When on a video call to an Asus Videophone users, the local video preview sometimes froze and the other side saw a green still image after some time into call.
- In rare cases it was not possible to listen to old Voicemails which were received through Online Number.