Skype officially a division of Microsoft

nickCR · Oct 17, 2011

Skype is officially a division of Microsoft

This happened on the 14th but haven't seen anyone mention it here yet.

SamDeSoil · Oct 18, 2011

I thought that Skype belonged to eBay.

flx89 · Oct 18, 2011

yeah, sold for 8.5 billion

kakaboo · Oct 18, 2011

Thought this happened months ago.. maybe it just wasn't "official" then?

TigerUK · Oct 18, 2011

will they kill windows live then?

or worse will they now force you to get a hotmail account to use skype?

Phoenixz · Oct 18, 2011

or they read all your messages and steal your trade secrets

Netphase · Oct 18, 2011

Microsoft released their first Skype update for Windows last Friday.

Release notes.....

Changes:

Falian · Oct 18, 2011

They can put this right next to Bing in their "loses billions a year" division.

AustinP · Oct 19, 2011

flx89 said:
yeah, sold for 8.5 billion

They could have downloaded it for free.

:anon.sml:

Sorry, I couldnt resist being a noob! Ahh feels great to get back to my roots.

tacoX · Oct 19, 2011

What a sick strategic purchase for Microsoft: I still love these guys even though I have not used any of their products for years.

Kstanki2 · Oct 19, 2011

AustinP said:
They could have downloaded it for free.

:anon.sml:

Sorry, I couldnt resist being a noob! Ahh feels great to get back to my roots.

I have no idea why I find that so funny.

Anyways, time to stop discussing sensitive information over Skype, they are watching.

arty-smiley-004:

flx89 · Oct 19, 2011

AustinP said:
They could have downloaded it for free.

:anon.sml:

Sorry, I couldnt resist being a noob! Ahh feels great to get back to my roots.

haha, guess they didn't knew that