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Hello friends, Take a deep breath. Skype is back to normal. On Monday, we'll provide a more detailed explanation of what happened. Until then, we'd like to apologize and thank you. Precisely in that order. We know how difficult and… Read more

Hello friends, Take a deep breath. Skype is back to normal. On Monday, we’ll provide a more detailed explanation of what happened. Until then, we’d like to apologize and thank you. Precisely in that order. We know how difficult and… Read more

Hello again, We are pleased to announce that the situation continues to improve. The sign-on problems have been resolved. Skype presence and chat may still take a few more hours to be fully operational. We know what our faithful users… Read more

Hello all, As Europe has woken up to a new day and Asia is entering the evening hours, here's the latest on the sign-on problem. We're on the road to recovery. Skype is stabilizing, but this process may continue throughout… Read more

Hey, even though it is too early to call out anything definite yet we are now seeing signs of improvement in our sign-on performance. We continue to monitor the situation through Europe waking up this morning and have more for… Read more

Hello, just wanted to drop a line that everyone at Skype working on resolving the sign-on issue is still up. We're fixing issues in our networking software and monitoring the clients getting online with increased success. It's been a loooong… Read more

Hello again, Everyone at Skype continues to work hard at resolving the current software issue. We are making good progress. We feel that we are on the right track to bring back services to normal. We thank you for your… Read more

Hello everyone, Apologies for the delay, but we can now update you on the Skype sign-on issue. As we continue to work hard at resolving the problem, we wanted to dispel some of the concerns that you may have. The… Read more

Some of you may be having problems logging into Skype.  Our engineering team has determined that it's a software issue.  We expect this to be resolved within 12 to 24 hours.  Meanwhile, you can simply leave your Skype client running… Read more

We’ve now released Skype 2.7 for Mac beta. With “beta” on the label, there may be some wrinkles, kinks and unsprayed bugs which we’ll remove in time for a public release. With that in mind, feel free to download… Read more