hell why only intel? amd started the dualcore/multicore business on the x86 platform, and the two chips are supposed to be compatible. so why, if not just for political and evil reasons, lock out all the amd users deliberately?

way to go skype

I'm glad to see that you have a good relationship with Intel. In some ways this is off-topic, but do you have an idea when you will support the new Intel Macs (universal application/binary)? I'm about to get a new computer and Skype has become an important application for me.

Yay for "platform agnostic", "consumer friendly" Skype, because an AMD dual core chip couldn't *possibly* live up to the marketing hype of an Intel! So this is the type of money hungry profiteering we can look forward to in the future now that Skype has been bought by eBay.

because of ebay，skype will not sharing good again。
http://www.9skype.com

under this way go on，skype will lost users out
http://www.9skype.com

Interesting, anyways it's nice to have 10 way conference. And I think you need dual core because of the high cpu demand(?) Anyways can't wait to try it out

What about multiple video conferences? Will that ever be possible?

Skype should also add 10 way conference support for AMD X2/multicore chips. I cannot see why you're limiting yourself to only Intel chips, considering that AMD chips could do the same if not better (besides, Intel chips can't do 3DNOW, which is what I see as the weak point of the chips). I don't see this as a fair move to us AMD users.

I cannot get this to work.

I have an Intel 945GNT motherboard using a 2.8 Ghz Pentium D (820) and no matter what I do, cannot get it to conference more than 5 people.
I have even tried beta 2.5 with no effect. What is the "Magic Formula" needed to get this to work?

Dan

In relation to ramchyld's post 3DNOW is not actually a weakness of the intel processor. The thing is actually this: i know very few app developers use 3DNOW. 3DNOW is the answer of AMD to intel's MMX instruction set which has stood as long as the pentium-mmx's, 3DNOW just popped up when it came to (don't remember the exact one) AthlonXP line. And MMX has been improved several times over. AMD HAS BEEN FOLLOWING INTEL WHEN IT COMES TO INSTRUCTION SETS (i'm not angry, just don't want for others to miss it). Simply look at SSE2 which can now be found on Athlon64's which actually were only in the P4 line.

Anyway, i think that this is more of a partnership between intel and skype. Possibly the reason(s) why skype likes intel is that, intel got to skype first than AMD, or there has been already an existing partnership. I think that Skpye partnering with both Intel and AMD would be insane as the other may demand the other to do this and that. I do think that AMD's multi-core line would essentialy be supported although hardware optimizations would only be surely available on intel's.

While this is great news for Intel owners, and some AMD owners will of course find this announcement annoying and no doubt it will cause an AMD backlash, I would like to address the REAL problem of Skype conferencing that no one from Skype is talking about openly.

When you make a call to someone on Skype, you use to be able to simply add another person to the call. Of course, you could add as many people as you wanted (which now appears to be 10), but that feature no longer works. In fact, it has not worked for over a month now.

Conference calling now means that you have to call everyone at the same time, which is absurdly primitive. Imagine 10 peoples phones ringing at the same time, the chaos of simultaneous "hellos" and operators asking you for your extension and automated systems giving their recorded greetings; all at the same time. It's utter chaos.

When you rely on Skype for your company, you soon realize they are not a phone company when you put a support ticket in on a issue such as this, and you never hear back.

This is a serious problem for many users who bought unlimited Skype Out (like me), only to find that the reason they use Skype has suddenly been crippled.

The newest release of Skype still has that feature built into it, so one can only guess that Skype does not intend to remove the feature, but nonetheless it still does not work.

It would be great if Skype could respond to their users with an explanation of the problem, and an ETA of the solution, like every other phone service provider would do.

In MANY ways Skype is superior to more expensive services such as Vonage, but this conference handi-cap is giving this great application a black eye, IMO.

Thank you,

John Derrick
www.JohnDerrick.com

I would also like a response to the future of multiple video conferences... THAT would be a great feature.