Skype 6 5 0 107 Beta
Skype 6 5 0 107 Beta Skype /?ska?p/ is a freemium voice-over-IP service and instant messaging client developed by the Microsoft Skype Division. It is the consumers version of Microsoft Lync, an instant messaging client for businesses. Skype was first released in August 2003 written by Estonian developers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, Danish Janus Friis, and Swedish Niklas Zennstr�m, who had also originally developed Kazaa. Skype has 663 million registered users as of the end of 2010. It was bought by Microsoft in 2011 for $8.5 billion. Microsofts Skype division headquarters is in Luxembourg, but most of the development team and 44% of the overall employees of the division are still situated in Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia. The service allows users to communicate with peers by voice using a microphone, video by using a webcam, and instant messaging over the Internet. Phone calls may be placed to recipients on the traditional telephone networks. Calls to other users within...