New Skype with Screen Sharing

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The popular VOIP client Skype, just released a new beta version of its Windows client. The new Windows client version is now capable for screen sharing. This feature was available in the last beta version of the Mac client so now Mac user can share their screen with PC users. This update is creating bridge between two different technologies & filling the gap.

To share a screen, user need to make a voice call which is generally people don't like to do all the time, You can share the screen only pear to pear contacts but not able to share it to groups.

New Features

Skype also added more new features like birthday reminders that will alert you when it's one of your contacts' birthdays, additional support for visually impaired users who can’t use a mouse. & use screen reading software. In addition, Skype now also allows users to import their contacts from verioues online sources like from Gmail, Windows Live, Hotmail, AOL, LinkedIn, and Yahoo.

Skype's screen sharing features are pretty basic but good. It allow users to share the full screen or selected part of the screen with other skype users.

This is beta software so you might find some bugs in it. Overall, A full release notes is available in PDF


Skype Release Notes -


third-party developers also offered Skype plugins that allow users to share their screens with their contacts.For now or you can grab other screen sharing programs like Yuuguu


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