Updated Note: Skype 3.x is now “stable”. Download Here.

Thanks for the tip from my Skype friends(Jan G.) who are blazing fast on skype stuff. Read on!

Version : Beta release.
Version: 3.0.0.106.
Release date: November 8, 2006
File name: SkypeSetup-Beta.exe
File size: 19 MB
Time I was notified and finished this: 2006-11-08T12:37:36

Conducted a number of malware, spyware, adware scans- all clean so far…still testing.

New (and improved- well in theory- we don’t know)

- Connect with the world on public chats- THIS is pretty neat. Go to Live and you will see live events you can attend.

- Click to call ordinary phone numbers on any website
(optional install).

- Search the web with the Google Toolbar
(optional install). Ok Big deal.

- errr looks like shiny new interface….Much improve interface and direct in ability to make calls, see web cams,

Change Log to Date….

08.11.2006 version 3.0.0.106

known issue: call quality in video call can be low
known issue: http/socks proxy connections do not work
feature: Public chatrooms
feature: Extras Manager
feature: Sound Settings Widget
feature: API: MENU_ITEM and EVENT objects
feature: API: Command GET MAX_CONFCALL_PARTICIPANTS
change: UI redesigned
change: Improved Video device detection
change: New Language files: Arabic (Eriksen Translations Inc.), Bulgarian (Nikolina Filipova & Nikolay Filipov ), Chinese Simplified (Leon Yang from TOM Online Inc), Chinese Traditional (Carlos Lee from PChome Online), Czech (Petr Silon), Danish (Eriksen Translations Inc), German (Claudius Henrichs & Dick Schiferli),Estonian (Eve Loopere), Spanish (David Reche), Greek (Panagiotis Sidiropoulos http://www.magenta.gr ), French (Fabrice IMPERIAL & Bruno Lépaulard), Italian (Daniele Conte), Japanese (Mayu Shimizu), Korean (Susan Joo), Hungarian (Mark Bender & Laszlo Koncz & Gabor Stefanik), Norwegian (Stig Auestad), Dutch (Kees Koenders), Polish (Karol Szastok), Francisco Ferreira (Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brasil) (Leslie Predrotti), Finnish (Heino Keränen), Swedish (Anders Olsson), Russian (Eriksen Translations Inc), Romanian (Péter Henning and Mónika Iancu)
change: new Language Lithuanian (Viktoras Kriukovas)
bugfix: API: Command OPEN OPTIONS did not function for Updates page
bugfix: API: Workaround to handle usernames with comma in CALL, CHAT and SMS commands (use quotation marks for them)

Get it here : Download Skype 3.0 Beta Release more headaches for Enterprise Instant Messaging Security people though. Note- out of beta now.

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