Skype downloads approach 500 Million

In the next few days, Skype will pass the 500 million downloads mark. (...)
Skype is at 498 Million as I write this, and is downloading at almost a million a day. The download rate was over 1M a day when they made a new release available and existing users were getting updates. Compared to Kazaa, Skype is downloading every day, what Kazaa is downloading every week.

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