There's a lot Skype can do for the more than 300 million people who use it.
#SKYPE STOCK PC#
As a multinational communications platform with built-in translation, Skype is particularly useful for those who play team games against global opponents, or who use a Surface tablet PC for connecting with friends and family. Microsoft could continue to get value from Skype. Skype is still widely used, even if it's no longer the strategic tool Microsoft once wanted it to be. Where does that leave Skype? Ripe for a spinoff, I'd say. Last month, the company announced end of life for Skype for Business and is instead investing in Microsoft Teams - a Slack lookalike that's actually gaining traction. The rationale for investing heavily in Skype is growing thinner by the day, and Microsoft knows it. See if you can count how many of those Microsoft products that Skype was supposed to make better still exist. Skype will also dovetail nicely with Lync, Outlook, Messenger, Hotmail, and any other communications-based initiative at Microsoft.
#SKYPE STOCK WINDOWS#
Much to the dismay of wireless carriers, it will inevitably work its way into Windows Phone handsets.
It will support Xbox gaming, allowing Xbox LIVE gamers to chat more effectively along with Kinect motion-based controls. As Fool analyst Rick Munarriz wrote when analyzing the purchase: Many of us were skeptical Microsoft would get what it wanted from the deal. Two years later, the company wrote down $1.43 billion of its investment, and four years after that, Microsoft ( NASDAQ:MSFT) bought the company for $8.5 billion. Contact him at eBay bought Skype in 2005 for $2.6 billion. At, he writes about the stocks he researches for members, which usually means diving into disruptive ideas in technology and entertainment. He's also a contributing analyst to David Gardner's Supernova Universe services and Tom Gardner's Discovery services. Today, he's a full-time analyst for a variety of premium Motley Fool services, including Rule Breakers. Tim Beyers first began writing for the Fool in 2003.
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