December 11th, 2007
Updated Skype patches critical and brings high quality video
After the long and embarrassing Skype global outage in August, you would think Skype would want to avoid further PR disasters. But now we find out that Skype patches high-risk flaw but didn’t warn the public for a month. Skype is a killer-app that is here to stay in the home and even business world and it is still the best-of-breed VoIP and video conferencing applications on the planet, but the public wants full transparency on these incidents. Covering up these things just turn a minor disaster it to a big one and it’s going to hurt Skype in the long run.
On the bright side, I’ve updated my version of Skype to 3.6.0.216 and I was pleasantly surprised by improved video conferencing quality in the update. To get improved video quality, you must have a dual-core processor, minimum 384 kbps upstream/downstream Internet, and a premium Logitech camera like the QuickCam Pro 9000 (I am an impressed owner).
Update 12/13/2007 - Skype updated to version 3.6.0.244 yesterday. It’s getting hard to keep track of these updates one after another.
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