Microsoft to buy Skype?

Lots of sources says a deal is close

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-10/microsoft-close-to-7-billion-deal-to-buy-skype-wsj-reports.html

Mac users seem to have a particularly negative slant on it

http://www.9to5mac.com/66187/microsoft-to-buy-skype-for-7b/

Announcement tomorrow!

It's surprising that a bug company like Microsoft doesn't already own and run it's own mobile network.

If Skype are bought out it I hope the mobile Skype services and Windows client say unchanged.

Richard S.

Looks like it's a done deal

https://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2011/may11/05-10CorpNewsPR.mspx

So will MS kill skype outright or make better LiveChatVideo

So will MS kill skype outright or make better LiveChatVideo

Since they moved it in a separate division and kept the CEO, I think they're going to rebrand it as "Microsoft Skype" and implement it in Windows/Windows Phone.

Hopefully they'll breathe some life into it.