Comments on: Microsoft Buys Skype: What the Web Is Saying http://gigaom.com/2011/05/10/microsoft-buying-skype/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:25:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Peter http://gigaom.com/2011/05/10/microsoft-buying-skype/#comment-623161 Tue, 10 May 2011 18:55:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=342526#comment-623161 I think it’s a good deal for both companies.

]]> By: Yacko http://gigaom.com/2011/05/10/microsoft-buying-skype/#comment-623117 Tue, 10 May 2011 16:39:35 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=342526#comment-623117 Unless MS has some sort of overarching evil genius plan, the vector of which no one sees coming, I can’t imagine how 8.5 billion works. Let’s try one way out there – MS buys Sprint and uses Skype as a per minute phone client that is social and can do micropayments. Yes, it is going to take something as bizarre as this and 2 chess moves ahead to make it worth the money.

]]> By: Adam Lang http://gigaom.com/2011/05/10/microsoft-buying-skype/#comment-623067 Tue, 10 May 2011 14:37:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=342526#comment-623067 Bad news for Apple users.

]]> By: Nick http://gigaom.com/2011/05/10/microsoft-buying-skype/#comment-623046 Tue, 10 May 2011 13:46:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=342526#comment-623046 Dave Winer went *slightly* overboard.

Having said that, I’m not entirely sure what Microsoft’s thinking. I figure we’ll have to wait to see how this shakes out.

]]> By: Jeff http://gigaom.com/2011/05/10/microsoft-buying-skype/#comment-623045 Tue, 10 May 2011 13:46:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=342526#comment-623045 They’ll go into super “product integration mode” for products that no consumer uses and that’ll be the end of it.

Or it could turn into a turd like Danger and the Kin. Yep, a turd.

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