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What is Skype?
Skype (the personal edition) is a free web meeting, video
conferencing, and VoIP software. The free version includes instant messaging, audio
and video Skype-to-Skype calls, the ability to call mobile phones and
landlines, paid international calling, and conference calling capabilities for
up to 25 people. During video sessions, users also have the option to share
their screen with other participants. Other distinctive features include background blurring, voice and text translation, location share, conversation search, and integration with Microsoft's Digital Assistant, Cortana.
This version of Skype works on phones, desktop, tablet, browsers, Alexa, and
Xbox. Users can call landlines and mobile phones from around the world by
paying for Skype Credit or signing up for Skype subscriptions, a monthly
contract for users who only need service to specific regions. Users can also
pay to have a local phone number through Skype Numbers, so that they can answer
phone calls from their desktops, tablets, or smartphones. They can also send
SMS text messages and share their location using the Skype mobile app.
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Skype (the personal edition) is a free web meeting, video conferencing, and VoIP software. The free version includes audio and video Skype-to-Skype calls, ability to call mobile phones and landlines, paid international calling, and conference calling capabilities for up to 25 people.
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The most common users of Skype are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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October 28, 2019
Skype is a time-saver
Using Skype allows our team to have meetings without leaving your desk. This gives us the ability to have meetings more frequently than you would if you were to all meet in one location. Skype also allows you to join in on meetings by mobile devices. This saves so much unneeded drive time and is so much more convenient for all.
- It allows you to join in on meetings while out in the field by a mobile device.
- Skype gives you the comfort of meeting from your own office/desk.
- Skype saves you drive time and fuel costs.
- Skype does everything that we expect it to do. No complaints that I am aware of.
October 18, 2019
Skype is an average quality product but does its job when it comes to messaging and making audio/video calls
I work for a corporation with over 25000 employees worldwide. There are multiple locations, different time zones. We use Skype to communicate with each other. It especially works great for communicating with employees abroad. Skype is definitely better than using emails. We definitely prefer Skype to emails because we don't have to sound formal and we can communicate fast.
- Fast
- Reliable
- Easy to use
- Emojis
- Glitchy
- Boring interface
- No customization
- No GIFs (like Slack)
- Window is large even when manually minimized. At work, I'd prefer something minimalistic.
October 17, 2019
Skype is an excellent tool for online video conferencing!
I use Skype mostly for online video consultations with my clients. Skype is a great tool to have and use because it helps me to contact my clients for free—even my clients who are in another country. I can use it to chat with them, video calls or just use it to call them without the video.
- Skype does video calls very well. The connection is usually good and the video quality is good.
- The app for Skype on my iPad Pro is pretty awesome. I hardly ever use Skype on my computer because it has all the features I need.
- I like that Skype is free for what I need. I have never needed to purchase Skype credits because I don't need to use voice mail, send SMS texts or make calls to a landline, cell or outside of Skype.
- Honestly, I wish Skype was integrated more into the other apps I use. Although I do use Skype a lot, I prefer to use Google Meets because I automatically get a conference link when I add a meeting to my calendar. This just makes it easier for me.
- Other than the above, I think Skype does a really good job - so good that most people mention Skype when I offer to do a video chat.
October 07, 2019
Skype is a solid performer
We use Skype from our desktop computers. It enables us to communicate with clients and prospective clients without using personal cell phones or landline phones.
- Voice quality is excellent as compared to some other VOIP services.
- Allows for recording and tracking of calls.
- Maintains phonebook.
- Updates should be sent as proactive emails.
- Messaging is a little awkward.
- Need the ability to change Skype name on the fly.
September 27, 2019
Business Type Skype Review
We use Skype For Business for our whole company as an internal communication tool. It is mainly used for quick chat and screen sharing sometimes. It is also used by team members to discuss issue together.
- Quick and easy to chat with people
- Can start a group talk and work together quickly
- Its mobile app's looking seems quite different from the PC client
September 25, 2019
Great screen sharing tool!
We use Skype on a regular basis to interact, chat and set meetings with our clients. We often have connection issues, but overall Skype mainly serves us well.
- Document and content sharing
- Screen sharing
- Multiple participants meetings
- Group activities
- 4G connection and video
September 24, 2019
Skype Connect with those around you anywhere!!!
We used Skype as a department for meetings among the team, when we worked remotely, traveled etc. It allows those not available in the office to be able to interact and be a part of a in person meeting, while still being able to be home or anywhere! Skype can also be used on your phone which makes it all the easier to connect with those around you.
- Love the document sharing and the text message chatting as well
- Makes international calls easy, for a more personal feel
- Spontaneity with this application makes connecting with others easy, and fun!
- Sometimes it has trouble connecting to the server, so it can be spotty
- It can freeze and stop when connection is spotty and take some time to reload.
September 23, 2019
Great Video Conferencing and More
Skype is used to communicate within the office. Whether we require a simple quick instant message, a phone call, or a video call, Skype provides the means to reliably relay information. With Skype being installed on all of the computers and providing each employee with an account, it means that we can create an interoffice communication network when emails are not sufficient enough. Skype saves time by providing an instant connection between employees so that they can address any problem with a quick conversation.
- Solid desktop application.
- Good mobile application.
- Array of features.
- High-quality video and voice.
- Configuration of Skype is particular.
- If you have multiple input devices, it can be cumbersome to set up the correct one.
- Sometimes it is not desired to launch Skype, but it is enabled by default. You have to change your settings to disable Skype.
September 19, 2019
Skype Review
Skype is being used by multiple departments within the organization. The main use for Skype is communication between team members and for internal conversations among teams. It's convenient and quick to find and contact partners within the teams and company.
- Chat interface is very simple and easy to work with.
- Video call quality is usually stable, with minor failures.
- Easily integrates with the company Outlook mailing list, where all team members are easily found.
- Group chat is not that flexible, so it's not able to compete with similar tools like Slack for example.
- Performance is not amazing, it may be slow at times.
- Although the interface is simple, it has room for improvement since it looks outdated.
September 17, 2019
Skype is simply sensational!
Skype is being used to communicate internally with coworkers as opposed to email or getting up to talk to someone. It is used by all departments across the organization and it makes it easy to communicate when a quick response is needed especially with remote employees.
- Offers immediate sending and receiving of messages between coworkers.
- This is very easy to use for remote employees vs picking up the phone to answer a simple question.
- It makes it easy to see if employees are busy in a meeting, free, or idle in order to see if they are ready and available to chat.
- It is very straight forward and easy to use, I am not sure if it can get any easier!
- It would be nice to have an easier way to set up group chats on Skype.
September 16, 2019
Skype for professional communications
Skype is used to communicate with other peers all over our organization.
- Video calls, voice calls, chats, and screen sharing.
- Screen recording.
- User search.
- Mobile and desktop app performance.
- Launch time on the desktop app takes too long.
- It shouldn't impact other apps performance during launch.
September 16, 2019
A great tool for collaboration
We use Skype for internal communication. It is primarily used for communications between teams to send instant messages. It is also used for discussing issues while doing the integration for end-to-end testing by making use of screen sharing. When using screen share, it is easier to find bugs/defects in the code which helps a lot.
- It's a good communication tool.
- Instant messaging.
- Screen sharing and collaboration.
- Loading time.
- Sometimes the application freezes.
- While using the system remotely, it takes longer to restart the app.
September 16, 2019
Skype lives up to the hype!
Our company does not do a lot of web conferencing so Skype has worked out really well for us and it's free. We use it for sales meetings for the most part as we all tend to be in different places and sometimes need to be able to show someone something and not just tell them about it. The other most common usage for us would be when a new client wants to put a face to the name.
- Super easy to use. Download the app and you're ready to go. We use the group video chat feature the most. quite often when having a sales meeting we have one person at home, another out in the field, maybe another at a doctor appointment, and then another in the office, and almost always one is driving. This allows us all to participate, get valuable information from each other right when you need to.
- I had a really big meeting once and was on my way to the meeting when there was a huge accident on the freeway and I was stuck! Traffic was stopped, no way to get over or get off the freeway. So I called my prospective client and let him know what was happening and asked him if he minded doing a meeting over Skype. Long story short, I got the account. Eventually, I made it there in person to complete our meeting, but thanks to Skype I was able to save the deal.
- Like anything really great, it slows down your computer. I'm not a techy person, but my guess is it uses a lot of space on the computer.
- I have heard their firewalls are not the best and that people have hacked other peoples passwords and such, but personally I have not had this happen.
- At one time I had trouble using it in quite a few areas around town, but that has improved.
September 15, 2019
My Second Choice
We used Skype as a backup video conferencing tool when others fail to operate in a stable environment. We have found it to be less stable than other platforms but serves our needs in communicating with students. We find that many households are familiar with Skype and the brand holds respect that is welcomed.
- Unlimited time.
- Ease of use.
- User friendly.
- Screen sharing.
- Presentations.
- More secure.
September 14, 2019
Sky's not the limit with Skype!
We use Skype for day-to-day conversations. Since we have offices in various remote locations across the country, it helps us connect easier and faster. Also very easy to use to set up an audio and/or video conversation if we need to talk which avoids having to remember a lot of phone numbers and extensions. Very efficient in that regards.
- Quick video call
- Send documents
- Group conversations
- Audio is an issue for me every time I organize an audio call. I have to go in my settings and specify my audio output which is very annoying
- Personally, I am one that loves to use emojis to build rapport and I find the app is very limited in that aspect
- Not too sure if the possibility is there to record a session via Skype meeting but that would be great
- Group conversations with split screens so people can work in teams
September 14, 2019
Skype is cheap and effective
We have used Skype as our primary means of instant messaging for many years. It's been handy in day to day functions, co-worker collaboration, and interoffice communications. It's being used by many people across all departments here in our primary office as well as our executive office, along with our roaming field users.
- Easy to learn and use.
- Instantly reach out to others and get instant feedback in most cases.
- Nicely laid-out interface.
- Notifications used to be better, and it is easy to miss new messages if you are away from your desk.
- Sometimes the systray icon becomes invisible.
- Once in a while, it seems like it's just not running and I have to start it again.
September 13, 2019
Favorite Telecommunications Application
We use it across our department because we prefer the quality of Skype compared to Google Hangouts.
- Video calls.
- Instant messaging.
- Screensharing.
- Privacy - There is no security offered in knowing that your calls are 100% private.
- Customization - It would be nice to be able to change the UI for companies.
September 12, 2019
Used to be the best, but competition is growing stronger and better.
We have been using Skype mostly to communicate with people outside of the organization. It has been the default communication tool we have had for years. Audio and video work great together to be able to hold efficient virtual team meetings. It has also been a way for us to know who is currently online and who is not available.
- Video chat. It's smooth and the technology has been well perfected over the years.
- It's fast. It loads and logs in instantly.
- Very easy to use. No steep learning curve required.
- Too much RAM usage. It is eating up all of our computer's resources.
- There is a considerable lag for older computers doing a screen share.
- Cannot handle a lot of users simultaneously doing a video chat.
September 10, 2019
Excellent free phone/video calling tool for global meetings
I use Skype to communicate with global clients.
- User-friendliness _ It''s pretty easy to navigate.
- Quality - Call quality is always good and I never have trouble hearing even when my calls are across the globe.
- I don't use it often, so sometimes it's difficult to find the buttons I'm looking for when I sign-in.
Skype is included with the university's Office 365 subscription, and all Active Directory users can access and be contacted via Skype. We sometimes use it for within- and between-department communication, especially for quick instant messaging. Skype is, of course, one of the original household names in videoconferencing, etc., but we don't use it much for that on a daily basis.
- Skype for Business has grown quite a lot since its days as Microsoft Lync and is now quite nicely integrated with almost facets of Windows and Office (and other Microsoft stuff).
- It's nice for inter-office communication when everyone's using Active Directory and has Skype for Business running.
- Skype for Business works well even on non-Windows and/or non-university machines (e.g. personal computers).
- Skype in general, including the Business version, can be pretty clunky, and surprisingly resource-hungry, especially when it's always running, and on machines with lower specs.
- This resource hungriness can be worth it for quick IMs to other members of the same organization, but I really have a hard time recommending Skype over something like Zoom for videoconferencing.
- Video communication with others in the same organization just doesn't always seem to work very well, even on the same network.
September 10, 2019
Good for the money
Skype is used to interview parents and potential employees for the school. We use it in place of FaceTime for professional reasons. It allows us to meet parents who are coming from abroad to our school. It addresses the distance issue for potential students where they can already e-meet their teachers before even starting school.
- It is a mobile application that can be used for voice and video calls which we use often.
- It allows for file sharing between callers.
- It allows the admissions staff to conduct one-on-one assessments.
- I am not confident that it is a secure app, as I use it effectively in business. It is difficult to see if things are archived or fully deleted.
- It does not allow us to do large conference type calls, especially video.
- You can't do screen-sharing unless it exists and I haven't figured it out yet.
February 21, 2019
Skype is awesome for personal use
We use it for easy meetings with people who are in remote locations via Skype. Some of our departments use it for meetings. However, when the network is bad, the communication quality becomes bad rapidly, and we cannot use Skype anymore.
- Many people already have Skype installed and already have experience.
- We can use it free of charge.
- Skype has a user-friendly UI.
- The system should have automatic quality control while video conferencing, even if the network condition is poor.
- Some people suffered from troubleshooting of their installation of Skype.
- A recording function could be welcome for people.
January 04, 2019
Skype takes the cake when it comes to video calls!
Skype has been used in my department for communication with members of other outside organizations ranging from; interviews, consultations, collaborations, and simply checking in socially. Skype has been a great way to allow for face to face communication, especially for larger group conversations, when the people in communication are far away and in-person meetings might not work.
- Skype allows for easy sorting of your contacts in a way that makes it easy to group people together and know who you need to contact.
- Skype seems to work well across multiple platforms; PC, Mac, and even handheld devices can use Skype in a way that is beneficial to their organizations.
- Skype allows you to evaluate and engage in conversation in a face to face way when person to person meetings would be hard to manage.
- Skype has been around for a while and there are now a lot of other platforms that do the same thing; Google Hangout, Dischord, etc. Skype may need something that differentiates them from the pack.
- Unlike cell service, because Skype is video heavy in the cases we use it, poor service and connection can often be a major complication. This is, however, an issue for any video conferencing software.
December 18, 2018
Skype: Microsoft's Playground
We all have our Skype accounts. When necessary for client conversations, we use Skype, unwillingly. Every single person complains about it and switches to another tool if possible.
Skype doesn't address any business problems, if anything, it's a problem itself. It totally became the inside joke:
- Look Skype rolled out a new version!
- Oh goodness, now we will have to figure things out all over again!
- Oh no, prepare half an hour in advance, to find buttons!
- Ha, Microsoft is looking for newer ways to mess it up again!
Skype doesn't address any business problems, if anything, it's a problem itself. It totally became the inside joke:
- Look Skype rolled out a new version!
- Oh goodness, now we will have to figure things out all over again!
- Oh no, prepare half an hour in advance, to find buttons!
- Ha, Microsoft is looking for newer ways to mess it up again!
- I guess one thing it does well is changing things around all the time. You feel like you're using a brand new product every time you log in.
- Room for improvement: roll back to what it was before Microsoft acquisition.
- Remove the forced Microsoft login. Make the "remember me" option available again so it won't sign me out every single time and force me to get a Microsoft account.
- Bring back screenshot options.
- I'm having a hard time finding 3 things it does well. It used to do many things quite well, but not since it's been bought out by Microsoft. It's now a disaster.
December 17, 2018
Return on investement of Skype for business
By far, one of the most utilized features of this platform is the video conferencing feature. It helps us to limit the amount we spend on our phone bills. Another benefit of Skype for Business is its portability.
- Cut the cost of business calls
- Reduce business travel costs
- It can affect real-world interaction
- Skype is a popular application and is sure to attract hackers' attention.