Confirmed: Microsoft Will Announce Acquisition of Skype Tomorrow Morning

"the concept is bigger than just money, including getting access to Skype’s 663 million registered users."

This would indicate that Skype has more registered users than Facebook. Colour me surprised. Although I wonder how large the overlap already is between Skype users and MS Windows users, especially with the recent Skype Mac Client stuff.

I was a little surprised, but then talking to people on the phone is much more well- so more likely to get immediate inter-generational and mainstream acceptance than social networking. Facebook is only just gaining mainstream adoption, albeit at a very fast rate.

Well there goes any chance of an update to their Linux port :-)

also the chance of using skype on linux for much more

Main thread already here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2530963

Skype never properly worked in Linux, now we also lost the hope -- if there is any -- that it will in the future.

I wonder how MSFT stock will react... premarket shows apathy/slightly down (-0.01 (-0.04%) as I'm writing this)

There goes the neighborhood....