Of course by now it is already old news that Microsoft has bought Skype for $8,5 billion. It is amazing that a business that is based on free calls, apart from international calls, can be worth so much money, but Skype did make over $800 million in profit last year, before the deduction of losses relating to previous debts.
It is going to be particularly interesting however to see what Microsoft has in plan for Skype, and one can imagine that it is going to be incorporated into one’s Outbox or additionally, with the Microsoft Office Suite, so that you probably have video conferencing and networking going on while you work on Word document, for example. There is no doubt that the age of voice calls is slowly drawing to an end and will be replaced in almost all instances by video calls. One would imagine, whether it takes 5 or 10 years, that there will be a time when people will be “suspicious” of you if you don’t want to be on a video call. Welcome to the world of always having to look good and having styled your hair!