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Finally, Microsoft can use Skype to enhance the value pillars of its Windows Phone 7 offerings.' Third, as far as consumers are concerned, Microsoft can bring product integration and create lots of cross-selling and up-selling opportunities for Windows Live users and Skype users. 'Second, Microsoft can also beef up its offerings for Live Meeting with Skype and further integrate Skype into Office.

Sandeep Aggarwal, Caris & Co.: Again, he finds the valuation rich, but adds that Microsoft can leverage Skype in many ways.'First, Microsoft can enhance its Communications/Lync Server 2010 for its enterprise-class customers,' he writes.

(The company's total cash position at the end of the March quarter was $50 billion.) 'Overall, we believe the strategic fit makes sense and that this deal should make Microsoft a stronger player in mobile, internet voice and video communications.' but that Microsoft remains a 'show me story.'

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He also points out that the company is using a slice of its $42 billion in offshore cash to do the deal, a big plus over a comparable-sized domestic acquisition of the same size. Kirk Materne, Evercore Partners: He contends that the deal is 'expensive,' with the purchase price 9.9x 2010 revenues, but adds that 'the strategic fit' with existing Microsoft products and the rapid growth rate at Skype 'helps justify the price.' He adds that monetizing Skype through advertising and gaming 'remains a key element to success' for the deal.(You have to wonder, in fact, if the company would have attempted a similar deal, at a comparable valuation, for a target based in, say, Mountain View.) For one thing, as the above implies, Skype is based in Luxembourg - so they can use some of that $42 billion in overseas cash productively. You should keep that in mind when thinking about the wisdom of the company's announcement today that it will buy the IP telephony service Skype for $8.5 billion in cash. What they couldn't do is use the cash for dividends or stock repurchases. Given the stiff tax burden the company would face trying to bring the cash back to the U.S., the company's options were limited: make overseas acquisitions, grow the business offshore, absorb a huge tax hit, or hope the political climate shifts and Congress declares a tax holiday on repatriated cash. As of quarter end, the company has $50 billion in cash overall, with an eye-opening $42 billion of the total held in foreign countries. See Skype for Business, supernode and softphone.When Microsoft reported March quarter results, the company for the first time broke out the portion of its giant cash pile that is held outside the U.S. Only a fraction of Skype users ever become supernodes at any given time, and in the early 2010s, the supernode architecture was dropped. If Skype could not make a direct connection between users, it might have elicited one of its users who has the Skype application loaded to become a 'supernode' and relay the call. Instead of using standard voice over IP (VoIP) protocols such as SIP and H.323, Skype originally used proprietary protocols that incorporated a peer-to-peer architecture. In 2011, Microsoft bought Skype and partnered with Facebook to allow its members to make video calls.

Skype was acquired by private investors a year later with eBay retaining a major equity position.

By late 2008, an average of 10 million users were using Skype simultaneously. In the fall of 2005, Skype claimed 40 million active users and was acquired by eBay for $2.6 billion. Introduced in 2004, within a year, more than a hundred million people downloaded the software. In 2010, Skype introduced its group service that lets five people have a videoconference. For outgoing calls, users can dial a landline or cellphone for a low per-minute or monthly charge, and subscribers can obtain a Skype number to receive calls from landlines and cellphones worldwide. Access to regular telephones is also available.

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Being software based, calls from Skype subscribers originate from their computers or mobile devices, and if the recipient is using a computer or mobile, voice and video calls are free. An Internet telephone and video calling service from Skype Technologies S.A.R.L., Luxembourg City, Luxembourg (a division of Microsoft.