Skype is now the most popular IM client
October 19, 2009 | Author: Adam Levine
Recently all Skype news are about commercial wars and not about the new useful features. Nevertheless, its popularity grows day by day. According to exo.performance.network, Skype is not only the most popular VoIP service, but also the most widely used IM client (at least on Windows PCs). After chipping away at Microsoft's lead for weeks, Skype finally
surpassed the MSN Messenger. And while Microsoft Messenger is pre-installed on large number of PCs, Skype requires that the user make a conscious choice to seek out and install the program..
How this statistics data has been obtained? exo.performance.network provides free widgets with PC monitoring tools. And these widgets collect data from about 20 thousands computers all over the world. So, the statistics is close to reality. But the paradox is that Skype becomes more and more unsuitable for IM chatting. The design of version 4 almost makes it impossible to open two chat windows at once. Besides, if you use Skype on several computers, the chat history will be separated between them. Skype developers are more focused on money-making communication tools - VoIP and Video.
See also: Top 10 VoIP services