By now everyone knows that Skype has been sold to Microsoft for a whoppingly big 8.5 billion dollars. The question on all our minds is what will the sale mean to Mac and iOS users?
There aren't any ready answers. Microsoft often treats the Mac as a least-favored nation. Most versions of Office have lagged behind the Windows counterparts, including some dramatic functional lapses like when Microsoft killed the ability to use Visual Basic macros in Office 2008, and then later restored that functionality in Office 2011.
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