Yet another fine product eaten whole by Microsoft only to be buried within some other product with a different name. Remember Groove? ๐
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Making it an independent division within the company, led by the same person as before, who answers to no one except Steve Ballmer, hardly sounds like an attempt to 'bury' the company, quite the opposite in fact, it sounds like Skype is being given a great deal of independence within Microsoft.
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I would agree with that assessment. MS is trying to appeal to the masses on a whole different level and burying Skype isn't the way to do it. If anything, this could help boost the sales of their products. Especially, the WP7 phones. I'm not saying that WP7 isn't a nice product already but, this certainly would help it along, even more.
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I assume that adding Skype support to Windows Phone is the main reason for the acquisition, that and maybe adding Skype to X Box Live...Skype is a very well know brand name, MS has nothing to gain by harming that brand.
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@T Bone, I hope you're right.
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Yeap, bye bye Skype. Too bad as this service had good potential. Now it will go in the trash bin along with Zune, Bob, etc. Actually, the whole company is headed there as well - M$ is like a huge tree rotten at the core. Soon, timberrrrr.
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One week from today, October 22, 2011, Windows 7 celebrates its second anniversary....and on its second birthday, what does it have to show for it?
Sales of more than 400 million Windows 7 licenses....and that '400 million' number is a few months old, by the time Oct 22 actually rolls around, it might be up to 450 or even 500 million.
This makes it the fastest selling OS of all time. Indeed, MS has sole more copies of Windows 7 than Apple has sold of all versions of OS X COMBINED.
In addition, Office 2010 is the fastest selling version of Office EVER...
And the X Box 360 has been the best selling game console in the United States for 2 years running....and is now the #1 game console in the United States.
Also, X Box has m...
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Selling more copies than OS X is not a great feat....Windows 7 achieved that in the first week of its release....
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...we have a M$ Fanboy here. ๐คฃ
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Rather than relying on personal bias and personal hatred, being rational and trying to find the truth rather than convincing myself that whatever I want to be true is indeed true.....makes one a fanboy, then I plead guilty.
At any rate, as I've said many times in the past, the moment you resort to ad hominem, personal attacks and insults, you have implicitly conceded that you've lost the argument.
So...thank you for conceding that.
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But there I go again....trying to use facts to win an argument....such a dumb fanboy move....
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Apparently you are very proud of that poor attempt of an argument. What is the source of such information? Microsoft? ๐คจ
Besides, We must make clear that the point of the discussion is not how well M$ sells its products in the U.S. (I think the story is quite different in European markets where free software is increasingly popular, and where the sickening relationship of blind worship/dependence with microsoft does not exist. Have you ever thought that maybe Redmond products are not the world's 7th wonder? According to John Dvorak, W8's graphic layout could be one of the worst mistakes of M$, since the OS approach is artistic/aesthetic rather than functional.)
This brings us to the REAL point at issue: How MS ca...
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I know M$ is headed for the dust bin, so everyone has to contribute. Is this Steve Balmer? I'm guessing he's doing whatever he can on e good, ole Titanic...
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Apparently Mr. T-Balmer (or was it T Bone? ๐ ) and his super irrefutable -and absurd- argument now remain silent. Fanboys can't stand to be proven wrong. ๐คฃ
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Looks like a good opportunity for either google or apple to create a product while M$ "hugs" Skype to death. Probably best served as a "gmail" or "iCloud" feature.
Oh well, there may be an opportunity to own Skype when they finally split-up M$, can Windoze, etc.
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