Microsoft aquire skype

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• murtceps

  May 2011 edited May 2011

  It'll never work again.
• guesser

  May 2011 edited May 2011

  mel the bell wrote: »

  prolly to kill it off like everything theyve "aquired"
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13343600

  
  Normally when microsoft buy something it's to save them having to write their own.

  My rubbish website including the redrawn Amstrad schematics and the Sinclair Wiki.
• Lee Fogarty

  May 2011 edited May 2011

  haha - ?5.2bn!! Don't they know you can download it for free??

  My test signature
• ccowley

  May 2011 edited May 2011

  guesser wrote: »

  Normally when microsoft buy something it's to save them having to write their own.

  Hmm... Deja vu. Must be a glitch in the Matrix :)
• mile

  May 2011 edited May 2011

  fogartylee wrote: »

  haha - ?5.2bn!! Don't they know you can download it for free??

  
  ha ha.
• Jimmo

  May 2011 edited May 2011

  guesser wrote: »

  Normally when microsoft buy something it's to save them having to write their own.

  That's true even MS-DOS (nee Q-DOS) was bought in off a friend of Bill Gates.
• murtceps

  May 2011 edited May 2011

  Jimmo wrote: »

  That's true even MS-DOS (nee Q-DOS) was bought in off a friend of Bill Gates.

  
  And windows bought from Everest :D
  
  
  I'll get me Coat!!
• guesser

  May 2011 edited May 2011

  murtceps wrote: »

  And windows bought from Everest :D
  
  
  I'll get me Coat!!

  
  you didn't expect them to be doing that today, did you.

  My rubbish website including the redrawn Amstrad schematics and the Sinclair Wiki.
• beanz

  May 2011 edited May 2011

  Does that mean future versions will include message boxes every time you do something
  
  "Are you sure you want to call your mother?"
• fog

  May 2011 edited May 2011

  it's be news if skype acquired MS :D
• Scottie_uk

  May 2011 edited May 2011

  murtceps wrote: »

  It'll never work again.

  
  Maybe its skypes recent outage that impressed Microsoft.

  Calling all ASCII Art Architects Visit the WOS Wall of Text and contribute: https://www.yourworldoftext.com/wos
• guesser

  May 2011 edited May 2011

  maybe they use it heavily within microsoft, and when they had the outage it cost them loads of development time. They realised if they bought it they could hire different staff to vacuum the server room :)

  My rubbish website including the redrawn Amstrad schematics and the Sinclair Wiki.
• thx1138

  May 2011 edited May 2011

  well, I remember similar threads when ebay bought it
• murtceps

  May 2011 edited May 2011

  thx1138 wrote: »

  well, I remember similar threads when ebay bought it

  
  Did they "buy it now" or was it an auction.
• mel the bell

  May 2011 edited May 2011

  murtceps wrote: »

  Did they "buy it now" or was it an auction.

  
  hope they gave themselves decent feedback
  
  wonder if they sniped themselves at the last second

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• thx1138

  May 2011 edited May 2011

  ebay did sell skype on ebay I think
• Modge

  May 2011 edited May 2011

  There goes free Skype calls then.