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A news item involving Skype was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 10 May 2011.

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Wrong Linux information

The main info-box says "Linux: 8.33.0.50 / 27 October 2018; 10 days ago" (according to reference #1 of the article^[1] ), the date is correct, but according to the same reference^[2] (Reference #1 of the Skype Wikipedia article), the last Linux version is "8.33.0.41".

Incorrect market share

Incorrect value(s?) in International call market share table. The 40% value listed traces back to a WSJ article: https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/01/15/skypes-incredible-rise-in-one-image/ It clarifies that "that is, for every ten minutes spent making international phone calls on every mobile and landline network in the entire world, four minutes are spent on Skype." That comes to 4/14 rather than 40%, and that much only if Skype and conventional phones are the only participants in that market. 82.17.70.176 (talk) 21:57, 21 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

^ "Skype - Wikipedia". Wikipedia. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
^ "Release Notes for Skype for Windows, Mac and Linux". Skype Support. Retrieved 6 November 2018.

[1] "Skype - Wikipedia". Wikipedia. Retrieved 6 November 2018.

[2] "Release Notes for Skype for Windows, Mac and Linux". Skype Support. Retrieved 6 November 2018.

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