Microsoft’s instant messenger has been around for a decade and should have been vastly improved over this period...but it hasn’t improved much at all. The guys who work for Skype are obsessed on making it better each and every month. So Microsoft is really buying the technology and the smart guys behind it. Face it...if they hadn’t bought Skype....then Google would have done it. Currently...Skype is basically free, which makes you wonder if Microsoft can allow that to continue on. My guess is that you will have to buy a Microsoft product in the future...probably for $49...with a piece of hardware (some special web-cam), to run Skype.
not going to happen, if they start charging, i’m moving to gmail voice chat