group video, group chats, screen sharing etc).

This is a very solid release and you can still use all of the main features without any problems (i.e. First, let me assure you that no-one is locking you out from using Skype on OS X 10.6 - 10.8 and there is no need to upgrade to Mavericks or (the new OS X now in dev preview) Yosemite if you don't want to.Īll OS X 10.6 - 10.8 users can head over to and get version 6.15. There seems to be a lot of confusion around this.

Here's what they said on the Skype forums: Microsoft's Skype team later offered up some details, saying Skype now requires at least OS X 10.6. The first indication many Leopard users had that they were being left behind came when they found out Skype's service simply stopped working for them.

The change happened this week, leaving Leopard users without any way to use the voice and video chat app.

Mac users running OS X 10.5.8 and earlier can't use Skype anymore now that Microsoft has dropped support for the older versions of the Mac operating system.

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