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Title: MS and Skype
Post by: rthompson80819 on June 18, 2011, 09:43:33 PM

Interesting to see where this leads.

http://www.newsfirst5.com/news/ftc-lets-microsoft-proceed-with-purchase-of-skype/ (http://www.newsfirst5.com/news/ftc-lets-microsoft-proceed-with-purchase-of-skype/)

Title: Re: MS and Skype
Post by: truenorth on June 19, 2011, 10:35:03 AM

Hopefully NOT to MORE media concentration.truenorth

Title: Re: MS and Skype
Post by: patio on June 19, 2011, 10:39:23 AM

MS isn't buying it because they want it...they are buying it to keep google from buying it...

Title: Re: MS and Skype
Post by: BC_Programmer on June 19, 2011, 11:14:39 AM

I think their idea is to integrate the node-based VOIP that  skype uses into either MSN messenger/Live or possibly also the XBOX Kinect.

Quote from: patio on June 19, 2011, 10:39:23 AM

MS isn't buying it because they want it...they are buying it to keep google from buying it...

Also this.

Title: Re: MS and Skype
Post by: sagebrush on June 19, 2011, 11:20:20 AM

What ever their reason for buying they lost me when there was so many outage days earlier this month. Uninstalled for now

Title: Re: MS and Skype
Post by: patio on June 19, 2011, 11:33:31 AM

Well the outage is not from anything MS has done...the deal hasn't been finalised yet.
I can't imagine them letting someone in to fiddle with their servers before any transaction has taken place...

Title: Re: MS and Skype
Post by: BC_Programmer on June 19, 2011, 11:54:40 AM

It was interesting to see the Linux Youth jump to conclusions  with regard to the outages. "Oh no MS just bought them and they already screwed it up" even though they didn't actually own it yet. It was actually a result of one of the intrinsic weaknesses in the architecture they used, if I recall.

Title: Re: MS and Skype
Post by: BisquitMaker on June 19, 2011, 12:23:39 PM

Don't ask me where just yet. There is an ongoing open source project dealing with the Skype protocol.

Give me a few.

Title: Re: MS and Skype
Post by: BisquitMaker on June 19, 2011, 12:50:38 PM

Skype open source and the downloads were removed.