It also highlights just how terribly Microsoft fumbled with MSN Messenger. They had hundreds of millions of active users and just sort of pissed it all away. MS

It also highlights just how terribly Microsoft fumbled with MSN Messenger. They had hundreds of millions of active users and just sort of pissed it all away. MS could have launched a social network just with Messenger to generate the graph and whatnot. They sorta did something, but it was a confusing experience IIRC. Then after they lose their users to Skype, they buy Skype and repeat the process, it seems. (The Skype client hasn't gotten much better and I've not seen anything interesting come out of the purchase.)