Skype heeft de finalrelease van versie 5.2 van zijn voip-client voor Windows uitgebracht. Met Skype is het mogelijk om door middel van tekst, spraak of beeld, of een combinatie daarvan, via een internetverbinding met andere Skype-gebruikers te communiceren. Sinds versie 5.0 is het mogelijk om met maximaal tien personen een video conference call op te zetten, maar hiervoor is wel een Premium Subscription nodig. Verder is de Facebook News Feed in het programma geïntegreerd en is er Skype Home, een plek waar je onder meer je stemming kunt aangeven, je profiel kunt wijzigen en nieuwe contacten kunt vinden. In deze release zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:
Main changes:Fixed issues:
- Modified call phones dialog with integrated contact number search
- New presence-aware call button, including a drop-down of associated contact numbers
- Modified presence icons, to better indicate a contact's availability status
- Improved call handling when you run out of credit
- New simple button to share files and contacts
- Improvements to help you find active calls
- New look for the contact profile area
- Accessibility: Accessibility on Call Quality Indicator was not complete
- Call Quality Indicator: Seldom Call Quality notifications could have been displayed for very short time
- Call Quality Indicator: Network connection indicator stayed red even after network connection had recovered
- Call view: Automatic call failure re-connection showed wrongly other sides name
- Calling: Missed call to online number did not display caller number
- Contact list: While browsing contact list in compact mode conversations were mistakenly opened sometimes
- Generic: Resolved many issues with right to left language displaying
- Recent list: It was possible to add to contacts unknown phone number
- Skype Home: Users avatar change was not showed out to himself on profile area until Skype was restarted
- Welcome Screen: Test call was ended when user returned to Welcome Screen
- Video: Video warning message was not displayed if webcam was in use by other application
- Video in mood: Video in mood had artifacts while displaying in profile area