{"id":1581,"date":"2011-10-08T16:12:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T14:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2011-10-08T16:12:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T14:12:28","slug":"microsoft-going-to-get-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=1581","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft going to get Skype?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-Post Icon wp-image-1582\" title=\"MS-Skype-Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/MS-Skype-Logo-64x64.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/MS-Skype-Logo-64x64.png 64w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/MS-Skype-Logo.png 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 64px) 100vw, 64px\" \/>It seems Microsoft is in need of a VoIP and Web-telephony specialist. The<br \/>\npurchase attempt of Microsoft to acquire Skype gives much to speculate as<br \/>\nMicrosoft itself has a network-based telephony service called Lync (which I<br \/>\nwas able to see in action also as it is being tested in our company.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->So what is Lync and Why does Microsoft then want to acquire Skype? Don&#8217;t they trust in their technology anymore or are they going to put Lync into the enterprise sector while Skype is the next-Gen telephony service for the wide public mass. Well, there&#8217;s much to speculate about but in Times where IT telephony gets a much more important topic in all areas it is only understandable that Microsoft is looking for an opportunity to set foot in that market segment as well. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1583\" title=\"MSLyncLogo\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/MSLyncLogo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"128\" \/> It will be interesting if Apple will then still offer the Skype App on it&#8217;s iPhone. Skype can be seen as direct competitor to FaceTime and probably decrease the revenue in the mobile transmission cost sector for cell network calls. I like the idea of falling costs for regular cell calls anyways. A healthy competition isn&#8217;t bad, in my opinion!So let&#8217;s see what the next months will bring up, should Microsoft&#8217;s deal with Skype come to a successful end!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems Microsoft is in need of a VoIP and Web-telephony specialist. The purchase attempt of Microsoft to acquire Skype gives much to speculate as Microsoft itself has a network-based telephony service called Lync (which I was able to see in action also as it is being tested in our company.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,342,3,19],"tags":[491,886,388,476,887,48],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-2","category-economyfinance","category-news","category-thoughts-2","tag-cell","tag-lync","tag-microsoft","tag-network","tag-skype","tag-voip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}