U.S. News, Washington. One of the most popular American programs, which is used worldwide to communicate both at work and at home, is now available in version 5.9. It is difficult to call this version of Skype particularly innovative, in connection with a minimum list of available versions, but the developers will present some novelties.

Among the innovations, there is a confirmation message that appears when sending a contact to a group conversation. Now you can organize a special hotkey, through which you can take pictures during the video call directly ( “Tools» → «Options» → «Advanced» → «Hotkeys”).

Now the user can also opt-out from updating in background mode. At the same time the notifications of available updates will remain, so if you want, you can update.

The program continues to beat the record of attendance: the other day a new record was recorded – 40 million subscribers in the network simultaneously. Recall that Skype is owned by Microsoft and is available for users of Windows, Mac OS, Linux, mobile devices on Android, iOS, Symbian, and others.