Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Microsoft Seeing Skype on the Side?
Posted by Jonathon Watkins in "THOUGHT" @ 06:00 PM
We've talked a lot about Skype recently. Well the Inquirer has a brief article up speculating that Skype may be about to sell out to Microsoft. They point to this article giving more thoughts on the matter: "You'll have noticed that Microsoft has toned down the hype on its Smartphone recently. No, it hasn't canned the project! - but the enthusiasm... what happened to that? The answer may lie in one word: Skype."
"A clue, say the gossips: ask where Skype's UK operation is based. The answer: Thames Valley Park. Is that the same TVP where Microsoft UK has its headquarters?" Rumours, pure rumours of course. But what if they were true? Is it a good thing that MS often buys the best technologies & companies and builds them into their next OSs? It's certainly true that VoIP has gathered a lot of support recently, even building some excitement amongst consumers. How would you like to see MS include VoIP in the next desktop and PPC release? Thoughts?
"A clue, say the gossips: ask where Skype's UK operation is based. The answer: Thames Valley Park. Is that the same TVP where Microsoft UK has its headquarters?" Rumours, pure rumours of course. But what if they were true? Is it a good thing that MS often buys the best technologies & companies and builds them into their next OSs? It's certainly true that VoIP has gathered a lot of support recently, even building some excitement amongst consumers. How would you like to see MS include VoIP in the next desktop and PPC release? Thoughts?
