Skype heeft de final release van versie 5.3 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:
Improvements:Fixed issues:
- Improved quality of video received from Skype on mobile devices
- Skype shows users' presence icons on collapsed contact profile cards
- Conversation topic editing button is now always available on the conversation header
- If a phone number is added to a profile after a failed call attempt, Skype starts a call automatically
- Automatically switch to SMS entry after user adds mobile phone number to profile after failing to send SMS due to lack of phone number
Known issues:
- Video: Video sending was sometimes not started if user had set computer to auto-answer and to start sending video.
- Outlook contacts: Outlook contacts without country code gave an error message triggered error message when trying to call them after adding country code
- Call Quality Indicator: Two call Quality Indicators were opened if user change from default mode to compact mode when Call Quality Indicator was visible.
- Call Phones: Call Phones number suggestion made it hard to call short numbers
- Instant Messaging: Long, not yet sent, IM entry was getting deleted when switching to SMS mode in conversation
- Call Phones: SMS button for emergency numbers was not disabled
- Screen sharing: In case user who is not in your contact list tried to share a screen with you and then receiver declined, the sender was still seeing that he is sharing a screen.
- Calling: In compact mode call was not sent to full screen if user chose it from the main menu.
- Calling: No credits popup on failed call showed rates for users default country and not a country where he tried to call.
- Call Phones: Call phones localizations did not fit into user interface in some languages
- Contact list: It was not possible to delete contacts from the contact list by pressing 'delete' key on keyboard
- Instant Messaging: When replacing a quote with a new quote then all the further messages sent to conversation appeared as quotes.
- Screen sharing: It was not possible to stop a screen sharing on a recovered call.
- File sending: Cancelling file transfer dialog was not correctly displayed in Right-To-Left languages.
- Profile: Adding a number to contacts profile played a windows default error sound sound
- Accessibility: Adding people to ongoing call did not indicate which persons are selected already.
- Accessibility: Sending contacts windows did not indicate which contacts are selected.
- Skype Home and Facebook channel: Skype may display sometimes Internet Explorer "Script error" popups
- Skype Home and Facebook channel: Skype may display sometimes Internet Explorer slow script warning message
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