Skype Blogs

As part of celebrating our second year anniversary, Skype has a present to give back to the internet for all of the amazing support we have received from the internet community. We are announcing two new initiatives that make Skype… Read more

Sometimes we hear people think that Skype is a rockstar-only company and that you must have three PhD-s to work here. This is most certainly NOT the case. Many of us are just starting their career or are here for… Read more

We just hit two cool numbers fairly close in time. Today we passed 150 million downloads, and a few days back, 50 million registered Skype Names. It has been argued about what numbers are useful to track for whatever purpose… Read more

Today we feature a Skype developer community member — Dick Schiferli, the author of Skype's oldest and one of the most successful plugin [Pamela](http://blogs.skype.com/directory/pamela_basic/view/) (website at [pamela-systems.com](http://www.pamela-systems.com/)). A lot of interesting insight into what a developer expects from Skype, how… Read more

The Skype Toolbars for Outlook and Internet Explorer that we've been working on for a while now, have now [their own page on skype.com](http://www.skype.com/products/skypetoolbars/). We've had a lot of requests for toolbars for more apps like Firefox, and those are… Read more

Since a few days ago, we require all customers to be registered in our web store when buying SkypeOut, SkypeIn or Skype Voicemail. In simple terms, it means that you cannot buy anything until you have confirmed your e-mail address… Read more

Our user research people are putting together research groups that help us better understand who you, our users are and what you expect of Skype. Which services and initiatives interest you, which don't, which areas we can improve… that kind… Read more