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[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Please Microsoft couldn't even maintain Skype dominance after they bought it.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To be fair they bought skype to break it's end to end encryption at the behest of the us govt. In return they were awarded big contracts.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data

[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 2 points 10 months ago

True, they ended P2P networking and proper encryption. It was pretty obvious in the context of Prysm scandal

[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

And they killed MSN for it.