Skype for Mac has a new beta version 2.6 available here and it’s brimming with new features. In addition you can expect improved sound quality and software stability according to the company. There is a nifty new call transfer feature allowing you to send a call to someone else. This is something you had to use an office PBX for and this is an unexpected bonus for Mac users.

 

The concept of having software come out for the Mac first used to be something we saw in the desktop publishing world all the time in the late eighties and early nineties. Companies like Aldus who made PageMaker and Quark with their Express publishing platforms routinely developed for a Mac and then the PC.

 

The PC was always months if not years behind in the desktop publishing world.

 

This changed in the mid nineties as PCs gained tremendously in price/performance over their Apple branded competitors.

 

I suppose Apple should be proud to see a mainstream software company like Skype developing for them first once again.

 

Here are some of the features that are now available on Mac that were previously only available on Windows:

 

 

Here are the Current system requirements

 

 

So with this release, Mac users once again have some bragging rights over the PC. The question is how long will PC fans have to wait to get this new and exciting office-like call-transfer feature?