Skype Blogs

We are really pleased to announce the release of Skype 3.0 beta for Windows today. This new release has a real community focus with Public Chats and Skypecasts. Public chats are text chats that anyone can create, host and join… Read more

Skype 3.0 Beta for Windows is now available. We recommend it only for experienced users, as we continue to work on it. [Download here](http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/skype3beta.html), and [see this page](https://developer.skype.com/WindowsSkype) to find out how you can give us feedback to improve it…. Read more

Firstly, a quick introduction. My name is Duncan and I’m an interaction designer here at Skype. I get to work with all kinds of interesting people, dreaming up new ways to make Skype useful, fun and usable. Making Skype… Read more

We now have public chats in Skype. Yay. What are they? In short, you could say that public chats are text chats that anyone can create, host and join. They're similar to the current private text chats and indeed, share… Read more

One of the concerns we hear from more active Skypers is that it is really difficult to get the sound devices in Skype right, especially if you have more than one device connected and keep switching between them. It's not… Read more

Extras are not entirely new to Skype, as we've had the features in Skype for developers to create extras for quite a while now. Skype 3.0, however, takes the extras to a whole new level, as developers can write extras… Read more