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Skype is owned by Microsoft. No worries it will die out eventually.
by joe563323 10y ago
Skype is owned by Microsoft. No worries it will die out eventually.
- nkkollaw 10y agoMicrosoft has been around for almost 50 years, though. They must do something right?
- astrodust 10y agoMicrosoft has acquired very few products, and of those a shockingly slim number have succeeded. I can only think of Excel as being the real survivor here. Others, like SoftImage, were a fleeting acquisition. Many more were buried alive.
- tonyplee 10y agoDOS is a acquired product, for $50k? :-) They only finally disable cmd.exe in the latest update. .bat files still run.
- astrodust 10y agoSomehow I overlooked that, but it's true, that's their first and most significant acquisition. They didn't buy the company or talent, mind you, just the software.
- astrodust 10y agoMaybe they'll accidentally delete the production database and then realize they don't have any backups. You know, as is tradition? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sidekick_data_loss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sidekick_data_loss