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Skype Bridges Macs and PCs

Skype Launches VoIP Client for Macintosh

by Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 09/13/2006 | 11:54 PM ]

According to a news story by PC World, the latest beta version of Skype for Apple computers allows video conferencing between Mac and PC users. By supporting Macintosh systems, Skype is able to expand the reach of its VoIP service once again, providing users of different platforms to communicate between each others.

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“Users of Skype for Mac 2.0 will be able to make video calls to both Mac and PC Skype users,” says the news story.

While other options, including SightSpeed free software that supports video conferencing between Mac and PC users exist, they can not boast with so large community of supporters as in case of Skype.

“Mac users already have the Apple iChat program, which enables video conferencing but is mainly limited to making calls with other Mac users. In 2004, iChat and AOL’s AIM became compatible, allowing users to make video calls to each other. However, the most recent version of AIM, Triton, only supports video calls among Triton users. But an older version, AIM 5.9, is still available and supports video conferencing with iChat users,” reports PC World.

Mac users interested in the latest version of Skype should use Mac OS X v10.3.9 Panther or newer and have a Power G4/G5 or Intel microprocessor.