Skype heeft een bètarelease uitgebracht van versie 5.7 van zijn voip-client voor Windows. 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 videoconferencecall 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. Nieuw in versie 5.7 is onder andere de mogelijkheid het scherm met diverse contacten tegelijk te delen. Verder kunnen er nu ook videogesprekken met Facebook-gebruikers worden gehouden en is er een push-to-talk-functie. Hieronder is het volledige changelog te vinden.
Group screen sharing
Group screen sharing is a neat feature for everyone who needs to organize meetings for remote parties.
It is now possible to conveniently share the your entire screen or a single application window to the other participants on the conference call whilst continuing to stream your own video as well.
To start a screen sharing just choose the + menu during the call and select share my screen.
Video calling to Facebook users
Now you can make video calls with all of your friends on Facebook, no matter if they are already a Skype users or not yet.
Having a video call with Facebook user is as simple as having one with Skype user, just select the person and click video call.
Push to Talk
We have introduced a Push to Talk feature in Skype. Many people who are playing multiplayer games have requested this from us.
With this feature you can set a hotkey which will toggle microphone muting on Skype call.
You can set the Push to Talk up on the hotkey's selection under tools > options > advanced > hotkeys.
Facebook contacts logic updates
We have made few small updates to the Facebook contacts handling.
First of all we have revised how the online status is shown out on the Facebook. We are keeping now the online status of your Skype and Facebook users in sync, meaning when you set yourself 'away' on Skype the you will automatically appear 'idle' on Facebook.
There's also a option to set yourself to be offline for everyone on Facebook, but still be logged into Skype.
In addition we have made changes how the Facebook contacts are displayed out in your Skype contact list. They're now listed based on all the same logic as excisting Skype contacts are.
Lot of bug fixes.
We have devoted significant time to concentrate on bug fixing.