Skype
8.54.0.85Voice-over-internet phone and chat software.
Overview
Skype allows you to talk to friends, family and co-workers across the Internet without the inconvenience of long distance telephone charges. Using peer-to-peer data transmission technology, Skype eliminates the central server as a middle manager.
Today, millions of individuals and businesses are taking advantage of Skype's diverse communication features:
- Free Skype-to-Skype
- Landline and cellphone calling
- SMS and instant messaging
- Voicemail
- Free video calls
- Call forwarding to your phone when you're offline
Skype-to-Skype calls, video calls, and instant messaging are free, 24 hours a day, anywhere in the world. Users can make phone calls and send SMS messages at great value Pay-As-You-Go rates, or make unlimited calls to certain countries with a subscription.
What's new in Skype
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
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- Intel 64
- OS X 10.10.0 or later
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Statistics reflects all the facts about these "alternatives".
Maybe too many "improvements", but still performs the best.
Just enough for me to glance at the comments and reviews of all the alternatives, and number of downloads, just laughable.
NOTHING to complain about.
Suits my needs just perfectly. People complain because too many people expect too many features to be implemented. If that happens, then the same people will complain why Skype is so slow, sluggish....blah blah bleh bleh.. You can't please everyone.
Skype was and still is The BEST internet video communication system for vast majority of people.
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/52421/zoom
Apparently, there's a bug in the MU interface such that the Zoom "cloud video conferencing solution for meetings" does NOT show up in the list when attempting to suggest software similar to Skype. It used to! I added it as a suggestion in Februrary! Now it's gone, with only the 'Zoom' game showing up in the list. Inexplicable, particularly since Skype shows up as an alternative to Zoom. Hmm.