Microsoft to acquire Skype

Re:Microsoft to acquire Skype by roadnottaken on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @08:52AM (#2532265)

Hopefully Microsoft is swooping in to save Skype from the death-spiral it's been heading towards for the last few years. There really is a lot of room for improvement (software-wise) and I'm going to give MSFT the benefit of the doubt for the moment.

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Re:Microsoft to acquire Skype by josefresco on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @10:04AM (#2532507)

Met a guy last year who worked on the last major version of Skype and he admitted it was garbage. He said the new version (not sure if it's out) is drastically better. Besides the quality of the client software, I'd hesitate to say they were in a "death spiral". MySpace is in a death spiral, Skype not so much.

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Re:Microsoft to acquire Skype by nikster on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @09:19PM (#2534732)

The "new" Skype on OS X is certainly total garbage. They just keep making the UI worse and worse. MS isn't exactly know for making great UIs so I am not holding my breath there.

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Re:Microsoft to acquire Skype by kesun421 on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @12:49PM (#2533151)

I use Lync at work, and I like it. The features are there, but nothing is in your face. Hopefully Skype will not adopt some of their design concepts.

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Re:Microsoft to acquire Skype by rbanffy on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @10:21AM (#2532563)

I don't see a new Linux version coming...

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Re:Microsoft to acquire Skype by xtfunlp on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @07:52PM (#2534550)

I was thinking the exact same thing when i read the headlines. But not that the linux client is (was) as good as the mac or windows versions...

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