Re: Nadella pledged to make ... Skype essential parts of daily life.
Wow, downvoted for asking a perfectly reasonable question.
This is the Reg, and the comments section for a story about Microsoft at that. Reason will not be tolerated.
I admit that I can't offhand think of a Skype competitor that's free, integrates with POTS, is easy for non-technical users to install and use, and is any less likely to be spied upon by the intelligence services. I don't have any special love for Skype (and for work purposes I use or have used various commercial alternatives, some of which work pretty well), but where my threat model permits, it does the job. And frankly my threat model generally permits.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
