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Skype is the most popular application for making video calls, mobile calls, sending messages and SMS. The well-known program is now also the successor to MSN Messenger.

Skype functions

With Skype, you communicate with your friends no matter where they are located and what devices they use. Smartphone, smart TV, PC or Mac, Skype connects them all.

Calls to ordinary phone numbers all over the world is also possible. For this, you have to buy call minutes at a reduced rate. Finally, Skype also a fine successor to Messenger. So you chat with your friends regardless of the network they use.

Usability
Skype is very easy to use if you hold it at the base capabilities. Calls to other Skype users is very simple, but it gets harder if you want to do more sophisticated things. Some features are hidden in menus or behind indistinct buttons. It takes a while before you fully understand what Skype has to offer.

Skype has become a reference in the field of instant messaging and video calling is no coincidence: the program is a real all-rounder. Skype adapts to virtually any configuration and works well. The program uses your system completely, thus ensuring smooth and stable calls.

Conclusion: an essential program

Through all the features and the quality, Skype is an indispensable program for a lot of people. Not only on your PC, but also for your phone and tablet.

Looking ahead, Skype is here to stay. Current owner Microsoft will certainly ensure that Skype over the coming years is always improved.

Brief history of Skype

Skype was developed in 2003 by the creators of Kazaa, the famous P2P program. They used the same technology as in Kazaa to permit calls between users and phones.

Two years later, the video calls feature was added, as did a host of features that will eventually disappear: Skypecast, Skype Find, send money…

Skype has already changed several times of owner. The program was bought by eBay in 2005. In 2011, Microsoft acquired it and replaced in 2013 Windows Live Messenger with Skype.

Pros

• Video group calls
• Excellent audiovisual quality

Cons

• Video requires fast internet
• Consume a lot of memory

Skype Download links. Skype is an app that allows text communications, voice and video over IP (VoIP). It was released in 2003 by Dane Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström Swedish (also creators of Kazaa) and its technical solution developed by the Estonian Priit Kasesalu, and Ahti Heinla as Skype actually born in Tallinn, Estonia. Skype users can talk to each other freely.
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