[Linux4christians] OT: Microsoft's Ballmer $7.7-Billion Skype Blunder

[usacomputertech]

It will help because skype customers are already overpaying for their 
service and now Microsoft will collect that income.


On 05/11/2011 08:12 PM, Fred A. Miller wrote:
>
> Microsoft's Ballmer $7.7-Billion Skype Blunder 
> <http://ct.zdnet.com/clicks?t=819761018-f09aff1f3240c763b781087d83996fa3-bf&brand=ZDNET&s=5>
>
> Microsoft is buying Skype, the video and Voice over Internet Protocol 
> giant, for over seven billion in cash and this will help them how?
>
> READ FULL STORY 
> <http://ct.zdnet.com/clicks?t=819761019-f09aff1f3240c763b781087d83996fa3-bf&brand=ZDNET&s=5>
>
> I'm bemused to see that Microsoft's Grand Poobah Steve Ballmer has 
> blundered yet again. This time, instead of Vista, the operating system 
> that never should have seem the light of day, or Windows Phone 7, the 
> far too little, too late, attempt to play in mobile devices, he's 
> wasted a cool $8.5-billion (Billion!) on Skype 
> <http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-buys-skype-for-85-billion-creates-new-business-division/9406>.
>
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