In the previous version, making a skype out call is straight forward. You can just type the number and press enter. But in the new beta, you need to open dail pad to type the number.

Hope by the time it comes out of beta, all the issues are sorted out.

I don’t think this was a good move from Skype, people rather have a good quality audio conversation rather than a crappy video one. I know this from experience, we have developed our own messenger at our company http://yourlive.com which has the ability of doing video meetings with 10, 100 or 1000 people simultaneously. employees did not like it, and they rather adopted Skype to make one to one meetings, because the audio quality in skype is great.

but now that skype is introducing video as their main feature, the audio quality will degrade, it does not matter if they use PTP, remember video is real time and cannot be cache in other people’s system. they must rely on a relay server.

I also heard that they will introduce the feature of pulling in videos from Metecafe, and Dailymotion, on this new skype, somehow they don’t like youtube. I wonder how private video conversations are going to be? and who will be pulling crap from those video sites?

anyways, have a good weekend man.