Microsoft buys SKYPE .... YIKES

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11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 11 May 2011, 12:08 am

#840640

well there goes the free phone calls....🤪

Microsoft just bought SKYPE for a mass of money - $18 million -

Sorry $8 billion Dollars [wasn't sure what I heard]

Your phone calls may be suspended ?? intermittently??

prices of their non free services will no doubt go up...

How did the Carbon Tax go in the budget???
anything mentioned..????

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vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 · 11 May 2011, 2:03 am

#840643

well that's me out as a skype user.

😠🙅

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1,332 posts · joined Jul 2009 · 11 May 2011, 2:09 am

#840644

This is certainly not good news. Add in news of. Interest rates going up and its not a great day

zocstar Officially Full-On Dubber

279 posts · joined May 2010 · 11 May 2011, 9:29 am

#840659

Um a bit more than $18m pocket change.

"Microsoft has agreed to buy the popular Internet telephone service Skype. The $US8.5 billion deal is the biggest in the software maker's 36-year history."

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ttriebler Officially Full-On Dubber

321 posts · joined Jan 2008 · 11 May 2011, 10:48 am

#840669

er....yeah except Microsoft has been providing FREE PC to PC calls and phone to phone calls via MSN Messenger for over 10 years now. So your conspiracy theories don't hold a lot of water.

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11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 11 May 2011, 12:33 pm

#840675

ttriebler wrote:er....yeah except Microsoft has been providing FREE PC to PC calls and phone to phone calls via MSN Messenger for over 10 years now. So your conspiracy theories don't hold a lot of water.

I didn't know about MSM messenger although I've seen it mentioned a lot of Forums and websites...

everyone seems to have heard about skype..

LEE

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4,674 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 11 May 2011, 7:04 pm

#840718

Microsoft paid 8 billion dollars for Skype?!?!? Didn't anyone tell them they can download it for free??? 😀

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vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 · 12 May 2011, 12:47 am

#840766

I hate MS messenger with a passion thats why I used skype.

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