Trying to maintain the success of recent years, this week was presented the new beta version of the popular Skype 5.0, which is especially noted for offering the possibility of video conferencing group of up to 10 people.
The new Skype 5.0 beta 2 works only on Windows and includes an updated user interface. As advanced users should have guessed, this release doubles the number of people who may be included in group video conferencing.
Announcing the launch, Skype said the video-conferencing functionality as is offered as a free trial, which basically means that users should pay for this service sooner or later.
For Mac users there is good news, because the company still has not indicated when this function is available for its computers, although indicated that video conferencing will be ready before the end of the year.
If you want to try this new feature, we have to remember that all participants in the call must use the version of Skype 5.0 beta 2.
The launch of this new version is not a surprise if we consider that Skype in recent days met new competition in the form of Google and Voice service, in addition to his announced departure the general market.
