Seems like Microsoft just decided to take off the gloves and fight it seriously over the mobile gadgets arena. The news about
Microsoft purchasing Skype might appear weird to people knowing Skype's problematic nature as a source of income, or to the appearing lack of connection between Skype's play-ground and Microsoft's entangled web, but you don't need a crystal ball to see the future in this case.
Just like in the old Browsers war, Microsoft has realised it has let itself fall too far behind in quality, and now when it finally has a reasonable product at hand, in the image of windows 7, it has to take drastic measures to bring back the masses, less it wall fall to oblivion in the mobile world. And the next step is simple, ingenious, and unless it is unreasonable failed by regulatory authorities, it is going to be Microsoft's winning Ace, as it will head back to the center of the mobile-world.
Microsoft is going to use Skype to give windows 7 mobile users all around the globe the best cost-benefit solution. And with Skype at hand, and a huge pile of money in its safes to pay the mobile-infrastrutcutre companies, who can compete a zero (or near-zero) cost windows 7 mobile phone ?
