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Ballmer $7.7-Billion Skype Blunder</a></font></p>
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the video and Voice over Internet Protocol giant, for over seven
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<p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 24px;">I’m bemused to see that Microsoft’s
Grand Poobah Steve Ballmer has blundered yet again. This time,
instead of Vista, the operating system that never should have seem
the light of day, or Windows Phone 7, the far too little, too
late, attempt to play in mobile devices, he’s wasted <a
href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-buys-skype-for-85-billion-creates-new-business-division/9406">a
cool $8.5-billion (Billion!) on Skype</a>.</p>
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