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Skype 4.0 for Windows Beta 1 — Call for User Feedback
Caution: Skype 4.0 for Wiindows Beta 1 is about improving the User Interface but it is not a replacement for your ongoing Skype conversations on your primary PC and should only be used on a secondary...
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Mike Bartlett Discusses Skype 4.0 Beta on Squawk Box
We reported earlier that Mike Bartlett, Skype for Windows Product Manager, would be the guest on Friday’s Squawk Box. With 15 fifteen participants, Mike answered questions ranging from features of the...
View ArticleIt’s About the User Experience I: Huh?
Over the past two weeks there have been several announcements and activities related to the personal conversation space: Skype announced its Skype 4.0 beta program trialing a “full desktop” interface....
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Mike Bartlett Comments on Skype 4.0 User Feedback
About two weeks ago Skype launched a new type of beta … one that actually will end at some point in the reasonably near future but that is also a major effort to incorporate user feedback while...
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Skype 4.0 Beta 2 Available Wednesday
Wednesday, October 1, the second beta release of Skype 4.0 will become available for worldwide testing. Via a mix of feedback channels involving legacy users and new users, bug reporting and usability...
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Mike Bartlett on Skype 4.0 Beta 1 Feedback
Earlier today we posted information about the availability of Skype for Windows Beta 2 along with a video as well as download and feedback links. This morning Product Manager Mike Bartlett put out a...
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Skype 3.8 Hotifx Released Today
In addition to the launch of the Skype for Windows 4.0 Beta 2 program today, Skype also released a hotfix update for its current public release version 3.8. It includes support for High Quality Video...
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Skype 4.0 Beta 2 Makes “Live Messenger Look Outdated”
The PamConsult team, producers of Pamela and PamFax amongst other products, lives and breathes conversation products due to the breadth of their overall product line. In their PamNews blog post on...
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Skype 4.0 Beta 3 Available
We have just learned that Skype 4.0 Beta 3 is now available. Once we have had a chance to install and review it, there will be more to say. But for now: Skype 4.0 Beta 3 Download. Release Notes Raul...
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Skype for Windows 4.0 Beta 3 Hotfix Introduces New Audio Codec
This morning Skype released a hotfix upgrade for Skype for Windows 4.0 beta 3 bringing in several new features but most significant is the introduction of a new “super wideband Audio codec; from the...
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Skype for Windows 4.0 Goes Gold; Improved UI, Audio and Video Performance...
Over the past eight months 1.2 million Skype users have participated in the Skype for Windows 4.0 beta program (stage 1, stage 2, stage 3). During this beta period, not only current user feedback was...
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SILK: Skype’s New Audio Codec Sets New Performance Standards for Voice...
The most recent hotfix release of Skype for Windows 4 Beta 3 had one key new feature: feature: Super Wideband audio codec The associated Skype Garage post went on to say: … Starting from this version...
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David Pogue, New York Times: Video Chats Overcome Clunkiness
Columnist David Pogue in a New York Time article reviewing Skype 4.0 starts with the AT&T video phone demonstrated at the 1964 New York World’s Fair and user experience from then. Not a lot of...
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Skype for Windows 4.0 Gold: Blog Coverage
Since its launch Tuesday, Skype for Windows 4.0 Gold has received some interesting coverage: David Pogue, New York Times: in addition to his column discussed here yesterday, he has produced an amusing...
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Skype at eComm 2009: Royalty Free Licensing of SILK Codec
With the launch of Skype for Windows 4.0, Skype delivered its first client incorporating Skype’s new superwideband SILK codec providing a new user experience in voice calling. For example, Alec...
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Skype 4.1 Beta Launched: Will That Be Video or Desktop Sharing?
Earlier this week Skype released Skype 4.1 Beta bringing back a few features lost in Skype 4.0 and introducing screen sharing (previously available with Skype for Mac 2.8 beta). From Raul Liive’s...
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