Comment on Why Microsoft is Buying Skype for $8.5 Billion by John

INteresting, Microsoft actaull has a good video and phone service in MS Communicator, but this is aimed at businesses, and is tied up with MS Comms Server. They finally had a Mac client out with Office for Mac, so both those platforms had working clients, only Linux, and iOS etc was left out in the cold, but no reason why clients couldnt be developed. All they are getting with Skype is the peer to peer transmission method and all the IP that goes into it, but not much of it could be applied to office comms whih is actually fairly well sandards based, only the authentication scheme it used was proprietary. So unless they want to buy it to halt development of skype clients on other platforms, so MS can turn it into their own Facetime competitor? BTW, I really want a Facetime cleint for Windows, and have it allowe over 3G from my phone, then it would be AWESOME! At the momement, Facetime is crippled by these artificial limits. It works fine of 3G here in NZ, as my iPad teathered through my phone works perfectly. Why can't I just do it from my Phone, Apple?? I end up using Skype instead, because then My wife can use here Windows PC, and I don't have to mess with teathering the Pad.

Comment on Why Microsoft is Buying Skype for $8.5 Billion by John

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