The next version of TeamSpeak, the proprietary Voice over IP software that allows users to speak on a chat channel begins open beta testing on 19 December.
TeamSpeak 3 has been in development since 2004 and was originally estimated to be released in mid 2006, but as this software has been completely rewritten with multiple new features, delays were inevitable.
Both server and client will be available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The rewritten code will improve TeamSpeak's performance and compatibility and allows the native binaries to be compiled from the same codebase for various OS targets. TeamSpeak 3 clients and servers (both 32-Bit and 64-Bit) are currently running on:
Windows
Linux
Mac OS X
FreeBSD (server only)
All platforms will be 100% feature compatible so regardless of which platform you use, all new features will be available across all platforms on the launch date, including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. Support for additional operating systems and platforms will be added after TeamSpeak 3 has been released.
The multitude of features will include fully integrated 3D sound support, improved security and privacy, tabbed voice comms. (allowing you to connect to multiple TeamSpeak 3 servers at once), file transfers, sound packs and much, much more.
