Despite the fact that users around the world experienced downtime of about a day just before Christmas, Skype continues to increase the popularity of their IM client and IP telephony service.
According to an official Twitter message last Monday, there was over 27 million users signing onto the service at the same time. Usually there are between 21 and 23 million users online at peak hours.
It's still limited in scope
New update lets you have a video call without having a Skype account. You can start a chat through a link and can use it at any time as it does not expire.
With the sudden upswing of video conferencing needs due to working from home, Microsoft has decided to add a new feature to Skype.
