Comments on: MSN buys into Net-calling future

Microsoft announces the buyout of VoIP start-up, aiming to replicate Skype's service inside its IM client.

[educateme]

We decided between Build or Buy, & Teleo seemed a good fit

Not one to be caught "late to the party" once more, with no
options other than buy and "bolt-on" another bundled feature
for Windows users. If you can manage to shut down the MSN
Messenger I guess you will be able to use another VOIP/SIP chat
client, but if history serves us a reminder, MSFT will make all
other chat apps be 2nd rate citizens on Windows. Of course
youll be offered the option to Join MSN at least 5 times, as it
does in a new XP install, but somehow I bet they will mopre
tightly tie users options to MS or None. They decided to buy,
knowing full well they cant build it, and whatever they can learn
about VOIP/SIP will be at the expense of Teleo, who had a nice
app until it gets ravaged by the montage of other bolt-ons that
will drag it into oblivion and disconnections galore. Wonder
when the first auto-dial virus will spring to life running up nasty
phone bills, sex dialers will have a field day.

[Andrew J Glina]

Another idea copied from Apple

Apple couldn't write an OS so they used BSD.

Microsoft couldn't write a VOIP programs so they bought one.

[fireball74]

This seems like a "Me too!" kinda deal...

Funny how this comes out shortly after Google starts it's Google Talk service. lol! It doesn't matter anyway. The days of closed IM and VoIP services are soon to be over. I'm betting on Google this go around.

[ntrsource]

To the editor John Borland...

To the editor John Borland...
So what's the big deal about this story, Microsoft and VoIP?

That they are late, that they finally found something that might work?
What you just read has been used for years and you can download your own communicator for free that can do exactly what you just described. Call from Australia, Mexico and Canada using your PC to any telephone, cell phone or business phone in the USA at NO COST to you.
Now that's worth a news story.... so turn it on and let's see whom else would want to give this service away for free.
Go to http://www.adcallscommunicator.com, The World Is Calling, FOR FREE.

[Stating]

What A Crock Of Sh*T

Adcallscommunicator, yeah right. Go to their web site and all there is is a download link for the software. Nothing about the company, no contact info, no product decription, nothing. Could be downloading spyware for all we know.

Look up the adcallscommunicator.com domain. It's registered through Godaddy. Google search on "adcallscommunicator" gives three hits - one to adcallscommunicator.com, and two to posters to CNET.

I suppose adcallscommunicator also sells seminars on how to buy real estate with no money down and how to burn fat with weightloss pills.

couldn't access

I couldn't access the adcallscommunicator link you provided.

[Goose]

Innovation is M$oft's middle name

"Innovative" M$oft does it again!
Rip them off or acquire them is the name of the game.