Microsoft buy Skype

[binny]

Microsoft, Nokia and Skype in bed together? Smells like a big push from MS into the mobile market and probably targetting mobile WiFi.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13343600

 

[chrisduggan]

This will get interesting.

Many, many people use Skype on their iPhones.

What will happen to Windows messenger, a direct competitor until now.

 

[Bailey]

It will be interesting to see how MS play this one out. At the buy-price you sense a sizable amount of desperation on MS part. Others say they (MS) just don't know where to put all the money