Skype for Windows 2.6 Beta — Skypecasts on Live tab, browser plug-ins, clickable moods, birthdays...
Skype for Windows 2.6 Beta is now out of Preview and in public beta. Download here. Thanks to everyone who helped us find and fix bugs during the Preview stage. It's not yet out as final release, but much more stable now.
Here are the major changes. See below for how to give us feedback about this beta.
Skypecasts on Live tab
This release gives Skypecasts much more visibility. You can now find Skypecasts directly from Skype itself. Simply browse to the new Live tab to view all the Skypecasts starting soon and find one you’re interested in. You can then click the "Talk or listen" button and get added to the Skypecast immediately.
Jamnastic commented Friday, Sep 15
The bithday idea is great! I like the fact that you don't have to enter the birthdays in yourself, Skype does that for you!
I've been waiting for clickable links too.
coffeegeek commented Wednesday, Oct 4
As a veteran podcaster, I'm still waiting for Skype to have a built in recording function. Are we ever going to see that?
In all honesty, I'd rather you save the moodies, clickies, happy shiny stuff for the AOL crowd I'd like to see real core functionality that people have been begging for, for the last year or longer - recording ability.
mthavisak commented Thursday, Oct 5
The new version Skype 2.6 sounds good, but still not work on my PC (Both Skype 2.5 and 2.6, After upgrade from Skype 2.0 and double click on Skype icon, nothing happend). Only Skype 2.0 is work.