Mac users might feel a little upset though, as you can still run Skype on Windows XP PCs, which is a much older operating system. All Macs manufactured since late 2006 use Intel processors, and are therefore able to upgrade to OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (and use Skype). It’s worth noting that OS X 10.5 Leopard is almost seven years old, and is actually used by a tiny fraction of OS X users. This means that anyone using OS X 10.5 or earlier versions can no longer use Skype, and if you use OS X 10.6 to 10.8, you have to use Skype version 6.15.
If you have problems updating, please let us know in this thread and I’ll try to help you. That said, we still encourage you to stay up to date, meaning upgrading to Mavericks and getting the latest Skype. Note that you should only use the link above, it serves you with a correct update for your OS version, direct links (to DMG files) can work, but are not guaranteed to do so. group video, group chats, screen sharing etc). This is a very solid release and you can still use all of the main features without any problems (i.e. First, let me assure you that no-one is locking you out from using Skype on OS X 10.6 – 10.8 and there is no need to upgrade to Mavericks or (the new OS X now in dev preview) Yosemite if you don’t want to.Īll OS X 10.6 – 10.8 users can head over to and get version 6.15. There seems to be a lot of confusion around this.
