Microsoft Has Bought Skype For $8.5 Billion
- Tuesday May 10,2011 08:35 AM
- By wickasitha
- In Microsoft
Skype CEO Tony Bates
Last week, it was Google and Facebook who were said to be purchasing Skype. Today, Microsoft has announced that actually? They’re the ones snapping up the VoIP company. The confirmed price is $8.5 billion; considerably more than what eBay bought Skype for back in 2005.
So what is Microsoft getting out of the deal? Not just the secrets to Skype’s phenomenal success. Microsoft’s said that Skype “will support Microsoft devices like Xbox and Kinect, Windows Phone and a wide array of Windows devices, and Microsoft will connect Skype users with Lync, Outlook, Xbox Live and other communities.”



