Microsoft buys Skype
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- fugged0
8.5 Billion Reasons to Fire Steve Ballmer
http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/…
- utopian0
Five things Microsoft may do with Skype
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web…An Epic Failure in the making...
- 5. Bring some juice back to Hotmail
LOL.fugged - LOL @ Waiting a few years to release Skype 2011monospaced
- 5. Bring some juice back to Hotmail
- scarabin0
- OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHMiguex
- I think your onto somethingali
- http://images.askmen…utopian
- holly shit.akrok
- lol. the beginning of the end.prophetone
- utopian0
- How is XBox and Windows failures? Bing is gaining market share, too.formed
- ORiginal xbox cost them money pretty much. 360 has probably turned a profit by now unless the failure rate stopped that.animatedgif
- aldebaran0
for 8 billion dollars they couldn't create their own chat software? am i missing something? 'cause it certainly isn't all just brand recognition
- users and skyp is already used with a variety of other services and devicesDodecahedron
- ability for large growth is already there.Dodecahedron
- aldebaran0
for 8 billion dollars they couldn't create their own chat software? am i missing something? 'cause it certainly isn't all just brand recognition
- The ability to control the existing userbase.animatedgif
- dbloc0
Skyprosoft
- ali0
Oh no I liked Skype, now they'll go and Microsoften it
- spot130
The big winner is the Canadian Pension Plan which bought a $300m chuck of Skype back in 2009:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/g…- 300 million over 2 years = 900 million. Good for Canada, not so good for M$'s long term numbers.spot13
- pr20
you guys sometimes seem to fart through your mouth. Skype is fantastic how it integrates video, sending files, text, etc...
- formed0
fugged - IBM has done amazingly well
- fugged0
I think you're going to see Skype on the XBox soon.
Side thought - I'm surprised Apple hasn't broken into the console market.
- wasn't it already?Miguex
- Apple created one of the best mobile gaming platforms!monospaced
- formed0
The next few years will be very interesting. MS will either boom or slowly burn (I think it is a 50/50 bet). If they can bring Office, Xbox to their phones and Nokia can make something decent, monetize Skype, then they'll have a lot in their corner.
- bjladams0
as long as it continues on like it is now, i'll be happy. i use it daily and am yet to run into any of the bugs that are so often mentioned about it... fingers crossed
- ernexbcn0
I have nothing against this acquisition.