October 2009

Many of you have asked about Skype and Windows 7 - and I'm happy to announce that Skype 4.1 is certified as being compatible with Windows 7.

If you don't already have the latest version, you should download it now - it now includes screen sharing as well as improved audio and video quality.

In a future version of Skype for Windows we plan to introduce features which integrate with the improved taskbar and jumplist functions within Windows 7.

We have just released a hotfix version of Skype 4.1 for Windows.

With this hotfix we have resolved a security vulnerability in Skype's Extras Manager and fixed video freezing issues for some of our users who were experiencing them.

As this is a security update, we recommend you to upgrade now.

If you notice Skype is not behaving in the way you expect it to, then please let us know about it through our public issue tracker or forums.

Full release notes for the build 4.1.0.179 are:

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