Skype adds a light installer
Skype is changing the way users download and install software.
Starting with your next full update to Skype 4.0 Beta 2 for Windows, you'll download a quick 2.5MB "light installer." It will then download the full Skype client, around 24MB. From the Skype FAQs:
"It manages the download for you so if you have any hardware or network issues, the download can be resumed. It serves the purpose of a download manager for Skype, allowing pause/resume and recovery from failures. It also gives information about features as it is downloaded and installed."
This is a common strategy.
Users get more immediate gratification from downloading (about ten times faster) and a greater sense of control over installation.
Skype gets more and better information about the desktop to configure what gets downloaded and from where.
UPDATE: Pondering that last point… What will the experience be for TOM-Skype users? Will they be given a choice of clients (monitored/filtered vs. private/free) at first download? at update?
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3 Comments:
I just need the link to the full installer. It's nowhere to be found on Skype's website.
http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-full
It would be nice, not only a Skype light installer, but a Lite version of Skype for those that only use it for basic requirements, and don't want to install such a heavy piece of software only to chat and talk over IP, as Google Talk (PS: I don't use or like Google Talk, just want a simpler and lighter Skype client).
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