seriously!?
Don't worry, you can Facetime someone who cares 😉 You serisouly have to pull your head out of the sand mate, the perception you have of Microsoft is very much 80s/90s, and the crap OS they made back then.... well upto Vista, Xp was good though, the company has matured a hell of a lot. Windows 7 is actually a big jump for m$ and a very good OS. This is a very good purchase for M$, skype is an excellent application, most people I know who own either a PC or mac use it, Facetime is a toy in comparrison.
Apple should had made a bid for it, I will continue using skype on all my macs, its a great program.
I hope that this post was meant to be funny, or it's you who needs to pull your head out of something and it wouldn't be sand
🙂 XP was not good. It took many service packs over it's decade to become... well, I wouldn't call it stable nor reliable.... or virus free or well, maybe more secure as they patched the holes in it that made it swiss cheese. XP was how I found my way to the Macintosh. Win 7 might be the best they've done ever, but it's hardly innovative as everything about it is a copy of other companies innovations that had been around for years.
I think as long as Microsoft runs under the leadership of Ballmer, they're screwed. They've continued excellence in their worse financial performance as company under his reign and why he's still in his job is beyond me.
Ebay was wise to dump Skype as it's done nothing but lose money. You don't pay $8.5 billion dollars for a company that's probably lost that amount or more since it's inception. Calling Facetime a toy is just iggnornat. It's more than a toy... when you pair it with iChat it matches the feature set of Skype fairly closely. Apple just never put many resources behind it because while "
everyone you know" might use Skype, reality is use of messaging products has plummeted year after year as people prefer text messaging. Video chat has never caught on with the masses and is a novelty.
Skype's biggest draw is for people trying to save money on expensive phone calls. Microsoft offers similar services now that people don't use, and integrating it with Outlook and office is silly. That doesn't mix well with their other collaborative offerings like Live Meetings (that have never worked well IMO. Watching someone give a power point that's stalled out on your end is not a good time.) Every time Microsoft attempts these things, they do it with no real plan of execution (Danger phones anyone? The Kin?) and end up ditching it. If anything, they'll just try to tie you into their own Live services with it. This money would be better spent improving what they've got and marketing it better.
Really, why buy a company that makes no money to integrate with your services that lose money? Two losers rarely make a winner. I'm glad I do not own stock in Microsoft because I'd be livid with this news.
And the Skype people surely were happy to sell! When you lose money consecutively there's this thing you end up in.... I think it's called bankruptcy. Now if I owned stock in Skype, I'd be a happy SOB.
