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>> Beyond that is the fact that Microsoft has 89,000 employees — are you telling me that the company that put a computer in every home couldn’t create a Skype c
by greyman 15y ago
>> Beyond that is the fact that Microsoft has 89,000 employees — are you telling me that the company that put a computer in every home couldn’t create a Skype clone? <<
Yes, that's right. They couldn't create a Skype clone, no chance. Of course, they could create a similar product in terms of functionality, but how many would switch to it from Skype?
- nl 15y agoActually it's a lot worse than that. MS already has a very successful Skype competitor, that does better than Skype in most metrics Windows Live Messenger boasts in excess of 330 million monthly active users with 40 million concurrent, compared to Skype's 170 million and 20 million-30 million concurrent http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/05/microsoft-confirms-85-bn-skype-purchase-clarifies-nothing.ars http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/05/microsoft-conf... Only 8 million Skype customers pay, so the income they'll get from it is pretty much nothing (compared to other sources of income MS has) Read that whole article - it shows how dumb this purchase really is.