{"id":194,"date":"2011-05-11T08:18:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T06:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2011-05-11T08:18:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T06:18:09","slug":"microsoft-buys-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/05\/microsoft-buys-skype\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft buys Skype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you haven&#8217;t heard (like if you&#8217;re living under a rock or nuclear bunker hehe), Microsoft has bought Skype for something ridiculous like $8.5 billion! I&#8217;m sure some Skype execs are happy and heading to the new car sales agents already&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Things could get real interesting in the Internet communications and collaboration business. However, keep in mind that Skype was struggling a bit the last while and Microsoft don&#8217;t have a good track record of turning failing procured assets around &#8211; but spending so much money on something means they must have a plan (or are very stupid which I doubt).<\/p>\n<p>As long as your Skype phone don&#8217;t start blue-screening it should be ok \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you haven&#8217;t heard (like if you&#8217;re living under a rock or nuclear bunker hehe), Microsoft has bought Skype for something ridiculous like $8.5 billion! I&#8217;m sure some Skype execs are happy and heading to the new car &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/05\/microsoft-buys-skype\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-stuff","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}