How Microsoft Spent $7B on Skype and $1.5B on a Facebook-Killer Freeroll

"Xbox + Kinect + Skype + headset + two sets of friends = social game platform at scale day one." Game changer.

But MSFT still has a 1.6% stake in Facebook, don't they? OK, so they may want to write it off should the Skype gamble pay off. I still have a feeling they will totally mess it up, though.

Wow! I didn't realize Skype had over 600 million users.

It makes sense to draw the social graph from actual connections rather than deduce it from people's declarations. Smart.

Totally agree!

What's a 'no-shop'?