Skype is the next phenomenon from the people who brought you KaZaA. Just like KaZaA, Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users – not to share files this time, but to talk and chat with your friends. The technology is extremely advanced – but super simple to use... You’ll be making free phone calls to your friends in no time! Use Skype to give your friends a call and voice chat with them at the highest quality on the market.

Here are some key features of "Skype":

- Make free calls to anyone else on Skype, anywhere in the world

- See who you are talking to with free video calls

- Chat with up to 100 people in group chats

Conference call with up to four people for free

- Call ordinary phones with SkypeOut

- Superior sound quality

- Works with all firewall, NAT and routers – nothing to configure!

- Friends list shows you when your Skype friends are online and ready to talk or chat

- Super-simple and easy to use

- Your calls are encrypted “end-to-end” in order to safeguard your privacy

- Based on cutting edge peer-to-peer technology developed by the creators of Kazaa and Joltid

Requirements:

- PC running Windows 2000 or XP. (XP required for video calls).

- Internet connection (broadband is best, GPRS is not supported for voice calls, and results may vary on a satellite connection).

- Speakers and microphone — built-in or separate.

- A webcam, if you want to make video calls.

- We also recommend that you have at least 400 MHz processor, 128 MB RAM and 15 MB free disk space on your hard drive.