Microsoft in Talks to Acquire Skype for $8.5 Billion

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Originally Posted by Fish In The Water

Skype already provides a great service (witness 600 million users) so it seems unlikely Microsoft can improve on such success. At the risk of generalizing, when the big get bigger, it's usually bad news for consumers.

Not as true as one might think, but with Microsoft that's a pretty safe generalization to make.