Skype sold to Microsoft for $8.5bil - what does it mean for you

OK so big Tech news this week was Microsoft's purchase of Skype for a whopping three times what Silver Lake paid Ebay in 2009 for the company.

But how will this effect you the ordinary skype user? Well Steve Balmer and Tony Bates (former Skype CEO) have promised to continue to support skype on non-microsoft platforms at the same time porting the product over to unsupported microsoft products (XBox for example)


So for the time being it would seem that Skype will be staying around on Android mobiles etc, but may not have quite the push behind it as it used too...