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Where are these 500 million users? Do you mean the Skype user base? Skype has 170 million users. Of those, only 1% actually pay for the service. So you're proba
by pstack 15y ago
Where are these 500 million users? Do you mean the Skype user base? Skype has 170 million users. Of those, only 1% actually pay for the service. So you're probably paying for 1.7m people's credit card information and accounts. Or do you mean 500 million Microsoft users? (Not being an ass, I honestly wasn't clear which users who were referring to in the process here.)
- meterplech 15y agoFrom SFGate article about the acquisition: "Skype's huge user base- more than 660 million users, including more than 120 million active of 'connected' users." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/05/12/businessinsider-why-microsoft-bought-skype-an-insider-explains-2011-5.DTL http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/05/12/... The 500million user figure was from a big TechCrunch article from 2009. http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/skype-hits-521-million-users-and-185-million-in-quarterly-revenue/ http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/skype-hits-521-million-user... Again, I'm not trying to necessarily argue that this acquisition was worth it. But, there is more than technological value here. There is a huge user base here.