The buzzes about Facebook buying Skype can be officially be slammed as later Microsoft swooped in furthermore to pocket the elusive VOIP channel for a handsome 8.5 billion dollars. This apportion involves the absorption of Skype’s all economical and financial arrears, hardly a bad day in the office for Skype CEO Tony Bates.
Nevertheless, this isn’t Skype’s first boyfriend. In 2005 Skype was bought by eBay. A fling that failed due to infidelity on one account or the other- to appropriate the internet phoning ramp to the immediate echelon of expansion, resulting in a give-away to a convoy of private investors for 2.75 billion dollars.
Skype will maintain its maiden name despite the prevalent snippets and will run intrinsically along with other Microsoft acquisitions.
This acquisition will see Microsoft take their real-time communications to the next level, especially on their current platforms like Outlook, the Windows Phone, Xbox, Xbox Live, Kinect and Lync.
If we pause to think we realise, after another cloudless year --Microsoft needed this acquisition with a lot more on the line than Facebook. Firstly I see it as a symbolism of ‘Shangrila’ for Microsoft who had been treading on diverse roads in the recent history to re-enter the COOL segment dominated by twitter , facebook and google.
Accompanying Microsoft’s growing energy in corporate messaging implements the acquisition of Skype allocates them a synthesis of expert stopgaps, trademark identification, further a whopping purchaser customer contemptible.
I would anticipate to them to withhold Skype’s sanctity, mould it gradually to fit their feeds, yet also practice the homogeneous technology native to their VOIP product Lync, Allowing customers the choice to maintain separate or integrated accounts vis-à-vis aiming to converge them both in the long run.
An plausible solution maybe to integrate skype with Hotmail as GTALK is to GMAIL – to provide a stable VOIP ; a far cry from Windows messenger.
Nevertheless, this isn’t Skype’s first boyfriend. In 2005 Skype was bought by eBay. A fling that failed due to infidelity on one account or the other- to appropriate the internet phoning ramp to the immediate echelon of expansion, resulting in a give-away to a convoy of private investors for 2.75 billion dollars.
Skype will maintain its maiden name despite the prevalent snippets and will run intrinsically along with other Microsoft acquisitions.
This acquisition will see Microsoft take their real-time communications to the next level, especially on their current platforms like Outlook, the Windows Phone, Xbox, Xbox Live, Kinect and Lync.
If we pause to think we realise, after another cloudless year --Microsoft needed this acquisition with a lot more on the line than Facebook. Firstly I see it as a symbolism of ‘Shangrila’ for Microsoft who had been treading on diverse roads in the recent history to re-enter the COOL segment dominated by twitter , facebook and google.
Accompanying Microsoft’s growing energy in corporate messaging implements the acquisition of Skype allocates them a synthesis of expert stopgaps, trademark identification, further a whopping purchaser customer contemptible.
I would anticipate to them to withhold Skype’s sanctity, mould it gradually to fit their feeds, yet also practice the homogeneous technology native to their VOIP product Lync, Allowing customers the choice to maintain separate or integrated accounts vis-à-vis aiming to converge them both in the long run.
An plausible solution maybe to integrate skype with Hotmail as GTALK is to GMAIL – to provide a stable VOIP ; a far cry from Windows messenger.