Microsoft's Dumbest And Smartest Moves Of 2011 - Windows - Microsoft news - Informationweek: "Microsoft's struggle to adapt to a computing market in which the PC is taking a back seat to tablets and smartphones is well known, and much of the company's troubles of late have arisen directly from that market shift. But don't count Redmond out just yet--it had some solid wins in 2011. There were also a number of clunkers. Here's a look at 7 of Microsoft's dumbest and smartest moves of the past year.
1. Skype buy (Smart). Microsoft announced in May that it had reached a deal to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion. Why was that smart? Skype's VoiP tools and services will add simple, widely-used video chat features to a whole host of Microsoft's products, including Office and Office 365, Windows Phone, and Xbox, and, in the future, Windows 8 tablets. That could give Microsoft a leg up on rivals like Google and Apple that, going forward, might even have to pay Redmond for the right to use Skype on some of their platforms.
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