Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re making group video calling free – for all users on these platforms. “For the last few years, we’ve offered group video calling to Premium users on Windows desktop and Mac and more recently Xbox One. Three years later, the Microsoft-owned company is back in the business of bringing multiple faces together over video for free (hooray!) as today it announced group video calling for everyone at no cost… again. As you can imagine, as the price of entry went above nothing, free alternative services including Google’s Hangouts video calling emerged. Fast forward a few months to 2011 and Skype rolled the feature out to its official version of the app for Mac and put a price tag on it. Specifically, the feature was in a public beta stage with widespread testing thus carried a price tag of $0 with idea being it would eventually be a paid feature when the service was stable enough. You may recall Skype debuted a very useful (and social) feature for Mac way back in 2010: group video calling.

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