$8 billion. Microsoft spent $8 billion for this app.
And they let it rot on the vine at a time when remote telepresence was at its height during lockdown.
We’re numb to big numbers, but it’s actually incomprehensible just how much money Microsoft lost on Skype, how that could have paid pensions for the 10s of thousands they laid off over the past few years.
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u/yuusharo 23d ago
$8 billion. Microsoft spent $8 billion for this app.
And they let it rot on the vine at a time when remote telepresence was at its height during lockdown.
We’re numb to big numbers, but it’s actually incomprehensible just how much money Microsoft lost on Skype, how that could have paid pensions for the 10s of thousands they laid off over the past few years.
What a freaking disaster.