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I'm surprised M$ haven't killed skype like the next day they bought it as they often do when they buy/take over companies and their products.

Skype is actually the only M$ product I use, and I would be more than happy to move to anything else as long as there would be a good alternative to it...

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How do they get $ with killing a product? Currently they are placing freaking annoying ads in Skype for freeloaders.

I doubt ads is the main source of revenue. They do sell DIDs, VOIP calls to landline phones and mobiles (with insane rates) so ads (only in few countries) doesn't account for much.

M$ bought lots of companies before, that eventually came to EOL even though they were doing pretty well before M$ bought them, it's not particularly about the skype (even though we see it gets worse over the time).

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