I'll also be curious to see how well Skype balances "simplifying" the user experience for new users while maintaining the functionality that "power users" have come to expect. I've heard some rumors (including from Andy's article) that the Skype 4.0 beta wipes out previous settings, so I'll be curious also to see if others write about those experiences (and provides another incentive for me to try it out in a VM). Skype is having a briefing tomorrow which I expect will be all about this, so I'll look forward to hearing what they have to say. or, do what I'll probably do and fire up a Windows virtual machine to try it out.) (We Mac users will just have to continue to whine. Windows users will apparently be able to download the beta sometime tomorrow at. I'd also watch Skype Journal's site as I know they'll have more details soon. The TechCrunch article also has some additional images and slides. I've included the three videos below that you can watch for yourself. I agree with TechCrunch, though, that it is puzzling that Skype's video is still only one-to-one when there are so many others out there offering multi-party video chats. The new "Video Call" button does let you initiate a video call in a single click, versus the current way of making the call and then clicking the video button (or configuring Skype to automatically launch video). my sense from watching the videos is that Skype 4.0 is really all about video. While I was personally okay with this as I often work with two monitors and could put the video into full-screen mode on one and keep the chat on the other monitor, Skype has made this simpler by having a "Show Messages" button that makes your video smaller and brings the IM chat window underneath in the same full-screen window. These were two different windows and so you of course had the issue of having to keep track of those two different windows. In the past, you could have a video conversation and separately have a Skype IM chat going.
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