(2011-05-10) Microsoft Buying Skype

Microsoft is buying Skype.

Steven Levy on how Google's Wesley Chan kept Google from buying it. “Peer-to-peer just eats up your bandwidth, right, it’s like the old technology.” So if Google bought Skype, Chan concluded, it would have to rewrite the entire Skype platform. Huh?

Phil Jones has dreams for them.

May25: They're ending InterOp with Asterisk.

Jun26: they (mainly Silver Lake Hedge Fund?) are playing games to screw various employees out of Stock Options upside. No matter how blameless he may be, this could raise personal-brand issues for Marc Andreessen.