M$ to buy Skype

[SYNACK]

With a bit of thought, this does actually make a great deal of sense. Skype has infrastucture and Microsoft has technologies, and with a new version of Windows apparently due late next year it would make sense for Microsoft to bring telephony to it's O/S as a standard feature. Coupled with several of their Lync/Exchange technologies such as voicemail/email integration, the ability to sell a fixed telephone number to a user and their next O/S will provide users with their entire home communications systems in a portable (if installed on a laptop) platform that only requires an internet connection. If they can sell this service for less than the phone companies charge for a phone connection per month then they will be onto a winner from not only businesses but an increasingly mobile younger market (obviously there will still be a 'free' version). I suspect Microsoft were really after Skypes infrastructure and services rather than their technologies and I think this could be a really interesting feature for any future version of Windows, but we shall have to wait and see.

 

This does sound like a good idea, no way they will be able to do it though as the EU will get up on their high horse again and demand that it be as broken as everything else to that its fair.

[CyberNerd]

This does sound like a good idea, no way they will be able to do it though as the EU will get up on their high horse again and demand that it be as broken as everything else to that its fair.

 

It's probably be mostly for their phones. Windows phones have only a tiny market share compared to the unix ones, and Google already have voice video services for Android - which is what M$ need to compete against.

Google announces voice, video chat for Android 2.3 - TechSpot News

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It's probably be mostly for their phones. Windows phones have only a tiny market share compared to the unix ones, and Google already have voice video services for Android - which is what M$ need to compete against.

Google announces voice, video chat for Android 2.3 - TechSpot News

 

Anything they do to make Windows Phone 7 better is good with me, its really simple, clean and easy to use but missing so many freaking basic features like adding your own ringtones. Sure its comming in an update, eventually, maybe. As a phone and for many things I think they are great, really smooth running but every so often you wonder if your in 1994.