that’s it for Skype
May10
evidently it’s official.
Microsoft, a modern day evil empire, paling only in comparison to Facebook and Google’s potential, has agreed to acquire SKYPE.
I own interests in SKYPE, and will now be rid of it.
I rarely used the service, now an application found on the iPhone, iPad and Android devices (and, others, I suppose). but, only twenty minutes ago, I deleted them, and unceremoniously, from my devices.
SKYPE is now part of the problem.
peace be to my Brothers and Sisters.
brian patrick cork
I am sure, my dear brian, that you will be one of many thousands that will leave Skype in anticipation of the damage that Redmond will do with the platform. I am only an infrequent user of Skype, choosing to use it for international communication with our family in Europe and India (works like a dream in those situations).
I see many blue screens in Skype’s future.
Oh, and don’t forget the value of all that data that Ballmer & Co will have as they peel off all those audio snippets from calls. That’s one way to build a strong language model for future speech technologies.
Is that the strongest reason, do you think, for making that acquisition?
I’d not considered, that.
Cork