Skype turns 5 years of innovation

April 4, 2009 · Posted in Data communication · 1 Comment 

SkypeSkype, the popular application for telephone calls over the Internet, serving five years leading the VoIP market and connecting over 330 million users worldwide.

Skype already has five years

Skype was born five years ago, a program that is downloaded for free on the internet and, like the other instant messaging applications, chat enabled by connecting two or more users. The main difference with the programs of this type used previously, mainly from Microsoft or Yahoo Messenger!, Was permitted to set Skype voice calls with high quality, something that other programs, but were gradually integrated, could not with the quality offered by Skype.

After all this time, Skype has attracted more than 330 million users, a figure that greatly exceed the expectations of the company. “Not on our best estimates we had dreamed of achieving” wrote Josh Silverman, Skype’s CEO on the blog. Read more