Well, there goes Skype as we know it...
Yet another fine product eaten whole by Microsoft only to be buried within some other product with a different name. Remember Groove? 😕
Making it an independent division within the company, led by the same person as before, who answers to no one except Steve Ballmer, hardly sounds like an attempt to 'bury' the company, quite the opposite in fact, it sounds like Skype is being given a ...
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Yeap, bye bye Skype. Too bad as this service had good potential. Now it will go in the trash bin along with Zune, Bob, etc. Actually, the whole company is headed there as well - M$ is like a huge tree rotten at the core. Soon, timberrrrr.
Looks like a good opportunity for either google or apple to create a product while M$ "hugs" Skype to death. Probably best served as a "gmail" or "iCloud" feature.
Oh well, there may be an opportunity to own Skype when they finally split-up M$, can...
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