Skype vs ooVoo

Recently I had a chance to test-drive ooVoo for video calls on a Windows PC. In the past I had been using Skype for all video call, but its state-of-the-art behavior makes me sick.

I already complained about inevitable forced updates which Skype doesn't allow to disable - they are downloaded in any case, and you are prompted with the update again and again... until you set no-access permissions for "?:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Temp\SkypeSetup.exe". I guess, MS will take care of this "exploit" in future versions, but basically I don't care - I'm using Skype 5.2, and is ready to drop it as soon as a decent alternative is found. And there are quite a few of them already on the free market...

The most promising is ooVoo (see the hint how to get its offline installer): video conferences, offline messages, video recording are the features you won't find in Skype for free.

ooVoo offline installer for Windows

While searching for an alternative to Skype, I've discovered ooVoo - rather new software which provides for free the capabilities, that are not available in Skype: group videochat, video call recording, offline messages, etc.

For some unknown reason ooVoo web-installer hangs on my PC (Windows 7 x64 SP1), and there is no explicit link on the official site with another version of the installer.

After short googling I wasn't able to find the solution, but I've encountered the link to the offline full installer of ooVoo at the forum: http://cdn01.oovoo.com/download/ooVooSetup.msi (version 3.5.8.22).

I wonder why this handy installer isn't provided at the official site.

Anyway I've installed ooVoo, and it works rather good. I had no chance to test the group videochat and video call recording, but offline message are supported.

So it's time to get rid of Skype! :)

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