Microsoft buys SKYPE .... YIKES

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..????

LEE

well that's me out as a skype user.

😠🙅

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

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."

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.

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

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

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