Animesh Kumar {itsAnimesh}
I'm an IT professional from New Delhi, India. Currently for the most part I work as a Technical Consultant developing Open Source ICT solutions for social and societal inclusion. I'm also pursing PG in Management. Below are the latest updates from a some social networks I subscribe to.
Microsoft to buy Skype…
For quite a while now all social networks have been buzzing with this rumor that Facebook, Google and Microsoft are interested in buying Skype… Today, the Wall Street Journal has confirmation that Microsoft is paying nearly $8.5 Billion to acquire the VOIP experts…
This would definitely make Microsoft competitive with others…
- Skype is a cross-platform service available on OS X, iOS, Android, Linux and Windows. With Microsoft taking over it would have a cross platform communication software which works great on all platforms especially the iOS.
- Apple has FaceTime on its mobile platform for video conferencing… So I feel to compete with that Microsoft would launch something similar on its WP7 platform…
- This would make Microsoft be dominant across all platforms withWindows Live Messenger on the PC, Kinect in consumer market and Lync in enterprise…
But still $8.5 Billion sounds crazy for all this… But just think about it for a second, 663 Million registered users and millions of users online every minute… This would give Microsoft a huge user database and infrastructure that will not be part of any of its competitors… Some of us seem to be under the impression that this would mean end of Skype on OS X and iOS, but I being an optimist believe the services might end up improving…