{"id":5905,"date":"2011-05-11T17:01:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T17:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5905"},"modified":"2011-05-11T17:01:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T17:01:10","slug":"microsoft-to-buy-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5905","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to Buy Skype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one is interesting &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2385137,00.asp\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">Microsoft is apparently buying Skype<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>eBay bought it and did nothing with it &#8211; just milked it, which is basically what eBay is all about and what it was founded on (not a criticism, just an observation).<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Google was after Skype big-time, but Microsoft looks to have won.<\/p>\n<p>Skype is extremely useful, and it is a growing application for mobile platforms. It is also extremely stable, and apart from the absence of a decent fax facility &#8211; capitalised on by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1053\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">rip-off software like PamFax<\/a> &#8211; it offers everything else you could want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one is interesting &#8211; Microsoft is apparently buying Skype. eBay bought it and did nothing with it &#8211; just milked it, which is basically what eBay is all about and what it was founded on (not a criticism, just an observation). Apparently, Google was after Skype big-time, but Microsoft looks to have won. Skype [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-tech-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}