New version of the Skype client is offered to Windows users

Sep 23, 2015 09:53 GMT  ·  By

Skype was hit by a pretty major outage a couple of days ago and Microsoft was working at full speed to bring out a fix, and while services have already been restored, it seems that more fixes are now available in the official clients available on Windows.

Today, the company rolled out a new version of Skype for Windows, which now reached version 7.11.73.102 and that is supposed to address performance improvements that have recently been detected in the older builds.

Details are not yet available for this version, which is really frustrating, especially because millions of users across the world were unable to start video and voice calls on Skype for approximately half of day. But most likely, this release includes bug fixes and other optimizations that are expected to repair previously-reported problems and to help Microsoft make sure that no outages occur in the future.

Still working on Windows XP

Skype for Windows still supports all Windows versions out there and also works on Windows XP, which no longer receives updates and security patches since April 8, 2014. But given the fact that third-party apps cannot connect to Skype servers, Microsoft allows XP users to install the official client and thus have a way to chat with friends and family using this service.

For the moment, there doesn’t seem to be a similar update for those on non-Windows platforms, such as Mac OS X and Linux, but the first is very likely to get improvements soon as releases for desktops usually go hand in hand.

Even though there are no release notes available at the moment, users on Windows are recommended to get this new version as soon as possible, especially if they’re running Skype on a regular basis.

The latest version is supposed to be the fastest and most reliable out there, so go download Skype for Windows right away and you’re good to go.

Windows 10 users can automatically download Skype
Windows 10 users can automatically download Skype

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