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Router Lab

The Hardware Certification Team is happy to announce the arrival of its latest lab to test and Certify routers – an important part of the overall Skype Experience. We are now inviting router manufacturers to submit their products for certification… Read more

Certification specs 8.07: now live

Version 8.07 of the Skype Software Product Certification Test Specification is now live. From now on, all new software certification requests will be tested against this version. Compared to earlier specs, this version is much shorter (six pages against six… Read more

Certification specs 8.07: a complete rewrite

Discussion draft 1 of the upcoming version of software certification specs is now available on DevZone. This revision is a complete rewrite of the specs. Instead of six separate documents the entire test specification now consists of just six pages…. Read more

Update in the Skype Software Certification

At Skype, we have a lot of great relationships with partners whose hardware or software helps enhance the Skype experience. To date, we've certified about 200 devices and accessories, like the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000, for example. Plus about… Read more

New Skype Certified products in August

In August there have been certified the following new software products: IM+ for Skype This is the first product certified in Remote Access category which means that people can use it to access their Skype account without being at computer…. Read more

Certification update for premium and featured Extras

We at Skype have always wanted our users to say: "Hey, it just works!" Of course, we'd love the same to be true when our users are trying out Skype Extras. But we also want a lot of people to… Read more