Comments on: Windows Phone success recipe gains another ingredient: Skype http://gigaom.com/2012/02/27/windows-phone-success-recipe-gains-another-ingredient-skype/ Fri, 24 May 2013 22:03:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mytalkbd http://gigaom.com/2012/02/27/windows-phone-success-recipe-gains-another-ingredient-skype/#comment-814154 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:10:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=490201#comment-814154 This deal will be boost business MS and skype both.

]]> By: The Datacenter Nerd http://gigaom.com/2012/02/27/windows-phone-success-recipe-gains-another-ingredient-skype/#comment-813737 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:31:35 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=490201#comment-813737 I think the MS/Skype deal is a genius move for microsoft. By adding it to their tablet, core OS, and xbox and tying it to a hotmail account it basically takes the best feature of current iOS products (iMessage) and gives it to a huge user base. Once they more fully integrate the WP7/WP8 devices into the Xbox ecosystem I think they have a huge win.

I used a WP7 for a year and the only reason I went back to iOS was lack of compelling features whereas iOS allowed me to integrate my phone into the rest of my digital life.

I still think that the windows phone development should be moved to the xbox division as it would accelerate integration into Xbox services giving the gamer demographic a huge reason to migrate to windows phone but I doubt that will happen.

Just a thought.

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