Skype: traditional phone a few years will be eliminated Microsoft is the future
Skype said yesterday, Microsoft is its most powerful potential rivals one. In addition, yahoo and AOL also nots allow to ignore.
According to Reuters, Skype chief executive and co-founder Niklas Zennstroem has said: "we see Microsoft, yahoo and AOL for the biggest threat, because they have large user group."
This August, Microsoft acquired Teleo; The beginning of the year, yahoo buy Dialpad, a move aimed at both sides to improve its VoIP communication market competitiveness in. As a leading service provider in the field, Skype now has 54 million users. In the middle of this month, eBay has completed the Skype announced to purchase.
Zennstroem confirmed that in and eBay purchase agreement reached before, also have been exposed to a few other companies, including the News corporation (News Corp). But only eBay can give Skype's biggest independence.
Zennstroem says: "as time goes on, VoIP communication will more and more popular, but our goal is to change people's communication way. In a few years, continue to use traditional telephone could be viewed as a strange phenomenon."