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| Thread ID: 117914 | 2011-05-10 14:42:00 | The Death of Skype | Cato (6936) | PC World Chat |
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| 1201114 | 2011-05-10 22:15:00 | Well I have Ekiga (http://ekiga.org/) installed but don't know many that use it but this could be the boost it really needs. It also uses both the major telephony standards (SIP and H.323). | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1201115 | 2011-05-10 22:19:00 | at least apple didnt buy it. Do you really think that MS are better than Apple. I know so many things that MS have killed once they get their dirty little fingers in the pie like Borland Kylix and Corel Wordperfect for Linux. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1201116 | 2011-05-10 22:24:00 | http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/ | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1201117 | 2011-05-10 22:29:00 | I think he (as did I) meant for the use of Video Chat and the like. Ebay is no where as evil as M$. I knew exactly what was meant. :) But some people have tunnel vision, and as soon as a service / product is sold they instantly think it may become a paid service. Companies get sold and brought all the time, and the majority of the time people (average users) have no idea it happened. One possibility: ( and its only a possibility) You may find that there will be a range of services available - one a free, which doesn't have all the features, and a paid one that has better options, more features. Exactly like some software, paid versions have more features than the free version. So nothing is new. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1201118 | 2011-05-10 22:36:00 | One possibility: ( and its only a possibility) You may find that there will be a range of services available - one a free, which doesn't have all the features, and a paid one that has better options, more features. Exactly like some software, paid versions have more features than the free version. So nothing is new. I can see one feature change happening and that is the removal of all but Windows support. I was trying to remember something else MS bought not so long ago where they did the same thing. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1201119 | 2011-05-10 22:42:00 | http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/ My new homepage :) |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1201120 | 2011-05-10 23:25:00 | I can see one feature change happening and that is the removal of all but Windows support. I was trying to remember something else MS bought not so long ago where they did the same thing. Yeah I also remember something - It'll come to me :confused: Any of This LONG list (en.wikipedia.org) ring a bell , jog the memory :) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1201121 | 2011-05-10 23:35:00 | Skype was (to me) the best thing since sliced bread. But now, Microsoft have stormed in with their multigazillion wads of cash and are going to buy it. I hope they don't have a brilliant idea and start charging for it like a wounded bull :badpc::mad: Epic fail, Microsoft! |
mookster1 (15854) | ||
| 1201122 | 2011-05-10 23:39:00 | Oh darn! Nokia have gone out the window now they are a bloat carrier, inevitably Skype will rapidly lose it's appeal giving us two communication media with terminal cancer I suppose that this means any Android phone is soon going to be so hard to get as to be virtually unobtainable. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1201123 | 2011-05-10 23:50:00 | One possibility: ( and its only a possibility) You may find that there will be a range of services available - one a free, which doesn't have all the features, and a paid one that has better options, more features. Exactly like some software, paid versions have more features than the free version. So nothing is new. I am sure someone said the exact same thing about OpenSolaris when Oracle bought Sun :) |
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