The world's most popular online telephony service, Skype, has been extended to work on Linux and Mac OS X, as well as Windows. Currently with a user base of over 23 million, Skype provide users with the ability to make free PC to PC phone calls, as well as reduced rate PC to normal phone calls.
Skype uses VoIP technology to enable users to make these low rate or free calls, a technology which is predicted to become rapidly more popular as users realise the benefits they can gain from it. Increased ease of use coupled with high quality calls are helping to drive this growth, with Skype alone growing at the rate of 130,000 users a day.
It was therefore a fairly natural move for Skype to open up their target audience to users of alternative operating systems, with Linux and Mac OS X being the obvious choices. Skype have been trialling beta versions of their software for some time now, but have now got around to releasing final versions of the software.
If you haven't already given this a go, we'd certainly recommend it. It's a free download, and you may end up saving yourself some money. If you do so, feel free to tell us how you find it in our comments section below.
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