Why Microsoft is Buying Skype for $8.5 Billion - http://gigaom.com/2011...
May 10, 2011
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"the biggest reason for Microsoft to buy Skype is Windows Phone 7 (Mobile OS) and Nokia. The software giant needs a competitive offering to Google Voice and Apple’s emerging communication platform, Facetime."
- LANjackal
Skype uses a peer 2 peer architecture. How will that work when MS buys it? Will people still willingly donate their machine resources?
- Todd Hoff
Do most users know that Skype is P2P? Do they care?
- Alex Scrivener
crap
- maʀtha
Will the users providing resources to Skype care that they are now doing so for MS? The other people don't matter. Of course MS could bring it all into their own servers I guess.
- Todd Hoff
The fact that Skype is P2P is frankly besides the point. Users neither know or care. Users only care that it works, which Skype does. As long as MS keeps Skype humming along, nobody is going to mind.
- Roberto Bonini
Um Skype works because of the good will of the user community that provides resources. Remember all the super node problems? Will people have that same good will for MS? What happens when MS makes changes they don't like? This is a bit inside baseball, but it would concern me unless I was willing to replaces all the computer power with my own, which they may do.
- Todd Hoff