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It is still Skype (well, the private equity firm that owns Skype). The msft deal hasn't gone through yet.
by jordan0day 15y ago
It is still Skype (well, the private equity firm that owns Skype). The msft deal hasn't gone through yet.
- corin_ 15y agoWhile it is their call, and they will want to maximise profit from the sale, there's no chance that MS didn't sign off on this - think how pissed they could be. "We're buying your company and you just fired the executives that we wanted to keep running it?" I can only assume that it was decided as part of the sale negotiations. Whether it was Microsoft saying "we want to bring in a new team at the top" or the owners saying "we want to maximise profit" first, who knows.
- bugsy 15y agoI am not so sure that has been established. MS is not historically this sociopathic. It might be a pig in a poke deal. Pay for a company, get an empty bag. We'll know if this is the case if MS says "hey wait a minute" or not.
- pyre 15y agoThere's always a chance that it wasn't part of the deal, but that Microsoft won't care. If they feel that they are buying the tech, and not the team, then they might not object to this.
- corin_ 15y agoThe fact that they might not care doesn't change the fact that the sellers are extremely unlikely not to check if they care before firing everyone.