I'd imagine that if it was Apple, Google or even Facebook buying Skype this sort of article would have been all over the tech press from day one, but because it

I'd imagine that if it was Apple, Google or even Facebook buying Skype this sort of article would have been all over the tech press from day one, but because it was Microsoft it was labelled a stupid deal, Ballmer obviously wanted to waste some money, or Microsoft just wants a Facetime competitor (as if they need to buy Skype for something as simple as that). Perhaps that's due to their own track record but it would be good to see more thought put into articles like this one has as opposed to just writing it off or not thinking very deeply about it.