Windows – The newest version of Skype doesn’t work. How to get a previous version

We have been using skype for years - the big advantages for us:

You can have a single account for skypeout. They used to only allow a credit card to be associated with a single skype name, so if your users didn't have individual company cards they had to put skype credit on using their own cards and be reimbursed.

You can have a central list of contacts. Otherwise if you want to only allow other employees to skype you, you have to have every employee send a new user message to everyone else and be added to their contacts which is a real pain to do manually if you have 100 or 1000s of users.

You can see this article, it might be useful for you:

http://almostfearless.com/what-to-do-if-skype-is-blocked-where-you-travel-and-why-we-should-care/

How to Get Around It

The work around is connect to a VPN. A VPN bypasses the firewall, because after you make your initial connection (which your ISP can still deny) you have formed a private tunnel between your computer and your VPN’s server. So when you go to use Skype you’re not going through the firewall at all. You can basically do whatever you’d like.

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Ways to Get a VPN

There are tons of websites that offer this service for free, and my best advice is to just try out a few and see if they’ll work where you are. Things change on a daily basis, so keep switching around if you hit a roadblock.