![]() ![]() ![]() Problems monetising it: revenues at the time – $860m for the year, losses of $7m – amounted to just $1.30 per user per yearĭifficulties integrating it into other Microsoft products and divisions Mobile carriers would not like the threat to their voice business from data calls, nor the threat of phones that ran Skype becoming "superpeers" and affecting bandwidth I also argued that the bad parts of the integration would be that In my analysis at the time, I argued thatĪfter paying $8.5bn for Skype, what will Microsoft end up with? In a few years, I forecast it will be this: $8.5bn less in its bank accounts, a cats-in-a-bag fight between its Office division and its Online Services division over integration of the service, little – if any – kudos from consumers, and no appreciable effect on its bottom line. ![]()
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