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Microsoft pays $8.5bn (£5.2bn) for Skype

Post by Pappa » Tue May 10, 2011 10:24 pm

Skype is currently a loss-making venture, but one that 663 million people are using. What will Microsoft do to it? :cry:
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Re: Microsoft pays $8.5bn (£5.2bn) for Skype

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Tue May 10, 2011 10:25 pm

Pappa wrote:Skype is currently a loss-making venture, but one that 663 million people are using. What will Microsoft do to it? :cry:
FUBAR is my guess. :nono:
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Post by rachelbean » Tue May 10, 2011 10:27 pm

Oh fuck :nono:
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Post by Feck » Tue May 10, 2011 10:29 pm

rachelbean wrote:Oh fuck :nono:

I just typed that too
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Tue May 10, 2011 10:34 pm

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Re: Microsoft pays $8.5bn (£5.2bn) for Skype

Post by klr » Tue May 10, 2011 10:37 pm

Hey, Microsoft bought the rights to DOS (so to speak) many years ago, and that turned out OK, didn't it? :eddy:


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Re: Microsoft pays $8.5bn (£5.2bn) for Skype

Post by Alan C » Wed May 11, 2011 12:19 am

We're all very excited about these changes.
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Wed May 11, 2011 12:59 am

Alan C wrote:We're all very excited about these changes.
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Re: Microsoft pays $8.5bn (£5.2bn) for Skype

Post by Feck » Fri May 13, 2011 1:37 pm

klr wrote:Hey, Microsoft bought the rights to DOS (so to speak) many years ago, and that turned out OK, didn't it? :eddy:


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Microsoft Dos upgrade ...... Please back up all your data before you upgrade to dos 6.0 .....
197 discs later and after the install ......... This back-up was made with a previous version of MS-back and is not compatible with the current version
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Re: Microsoft pays $8.5bn (£5.2bn) for Skype

Post by klr » Fri May 13, 2011 1:58 pm

Feck wrote:
klr wrote:Hey, Microsoft bought the rights to DOS (so to speak) many years ago, and that turned out OK, didn't it? :eddy:


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Microsoft Dos upgrade ...... Please back up all your data before you upgrade to dos 6.0 .....
197 discs later and after the install ......... This back-up was made with a previous version of MS-back and is not compatible with the current version
... many years ago, I was driven around Dublin by a taxi driver who referred to to it as "MS bleedin' DOS" :nazi:
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Re: Microsoft pays $8.5bn (£5.2bn) for Skype

Post by Pappa » Fri May 13, 2011 2:34 pm

May or may not be a myth... but the DOS that Microsoft bought and ran with was adapted from an earlier QDOS, which stood for Quick and Dirty Operating System.
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Re: Microsoft pays $8.5bn (£5.2bn) for Skype

Post by klr » Fri May 13, 2011 2:39 pm

Pappa wrote:May or may not be a myth... but the DOS that Microsoft bought and ran with was adapted from an earlier QDOS, which stood for Quick and Dirty Operating System.
It's no myth. Microsoft just didn't tell the poor sap it was buying 86-DOS (aka QDOS) from what it was going to do with it. Actually, under the Non-Disclosure Agreement with IBM, Microsoft couldn't say anything anyway.

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Re: Microsoft pays $8.5bn (£5.2bn) for Skype

Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri May 13, 2011 3:19 pm

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