{"id":1471,"date":"2011-10-16T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2011-10-16T02:09:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T06:09:31","slug":"skype%e2%80%99s-future-under-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/skype%e2%80%99s-future-under-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype\u2019s Future under Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/101611_0454_SkypesFutur1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is now officially the owner of Skype, the instant messaging client used by millions around the world. Arstechnica took a look at what Microsoft is likely to do with its new acquisition:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skype is likely to retain a mass consumer market appeal through integration with Windows Live, Xbox, and Microsoft Outlook.<\/li>\n<li>Skype will also probably be integrated with Lync, Microsoft&#8217;s business communications program. Because they are built upon different software code bases it could take up to two years for the two to become truly assimilated.<\/li>\n<li>Skype should soon see a debut on Microsoft&#8217;s new Windows Phone 7 platform.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about the features Microsoft is likely to bring to Skype as well as its future under Windows 8 click <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/news\/2011\/10\/skypes-future-under-microsoft-integration-everywhere.ars\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/news\/2011\/10\/skypes-future-under-microsoft-integration-everywhere.ars\">Arstechnica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is now officially the owner of Skype, the instant messaging client used by millions around the world. Arstechnica took a look at what Microsoft is likely to do with its new acquisition: &nbsp; Skype is likely to retain a mass consumer market appeal through integration with Windows Live, Xbox, and Microsoft Outlook. Skype will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1489,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}