Skype growing by 380,000 users a day?

User Comments: 8

1. February 12, 2009 4:01 PM
   captain828 said:
   405mil ?!? wowThis is what should be instead of classical telephony.
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2. February 12, 2009 4:10 PM
   dixonpete said:
   Let's hope Skype comes out with an updated Linux client as well.
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3. February 12, 2009 7:53 PM
   gusl said:
   I'll add to dixonpete's comment- Let's hope Skype comes out witn an updated Mac client as well. My Mac Skype program is ages behind the Windows users I Skype with.
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4. February 12, 2009 9:53 PM
   kingmarku said:
   I think they should have improved the video and audio quality while keeping the interface of 3.8 which I went back to since the tools give you more control over how and when your video will start in a call as well as taking up less of your display space with giant pop up windows for functions you may not intend to use during a call or other Skype contact. I prefer to keep it all in a slim bar to one side while work on docs as I take and make calls. The only time I need any other window is for the occasional chat or to send an sms; or to drag the "view in window" box up to where the camera is on top of the display when closer to eye to eye is desired. Hopefully, they will tweak 4.0 into a more user-defined format.
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5. February 13, 2009 8:51 AM
   siiix said:
   well the ONLINE amount of people increased from 1million for 15million over the fast few months, its hard to fake that, you can see how many are online when you start skype... dont know why trough skype is really a bad and/or expensive service compared to all other competitors... i personally hate skype, would not use it if some of my contacts would not be only reachable there
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6. February 13, 2009 8:59 AM
   siiix said:
   [b]Originally posted by captain828:[/b][quote]405mil ?!? wowThis is what should be instead of classical telephony.[/quote]NO ! thats VOIP as in SIP, skype is very expensive, very low audio quality compared to SIP, and video i'm very not impressed eigter, not to mention Skype uses a proprietary protocol so you have to use the crapy software and hardware will stay expensive as it can gettrust me skype is not the future, its just a temporary hiccup in popularity do to people want change but not informed enough of they options
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7. February 13, 2009 3:40 PM
   fearraza said:
   i used Skype for gaming purposes, its really convenient.
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8. February 14, 2009 12:50 AM
   Julio said:
   I haven't used Skype for about a year now, but back then it was unmatched in terms of PC to PC video quality for a freeware program.
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