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Microsoft's Skype acquisition and Linux users impact. |
| 05-10-2011 |
Microsoft's Skype acquisition and Linux users impact.
May 09, 2011
According to a story the Wall Street Journal broke late Monday evening (and later confirmed early Tuesday morning), Microsoft has closed a nearly $8 billion deal for the popular voice-over-IP company.
Microsoft is buying Skype for $8.5 billion, and the Windows maker says it will integrate Skype with many existing Microsoft products and services. The company also plans to maintain Skype's stand-alone clients for non-Microsoft platforms such as Mac OS X and Linux.
Skype has been up for sale for some time, and several companies were rumored to be courting the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service including Cisco, Google and Facebook. Ebay purchased Skype in 2005 for $2.6 billion, but in 2009 sold its majority interest in Skype to a consortium of investors for $1.9 billion.
Skype is the world's largest provider of international voice communications beating out all traditional telephone service providers, according to a 2010 report by TeleGeography, a telecommunications consultancy and market research firm. |
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