Skype turns 5 years old, what will future hold?

Celebrating ‘five years of wow‘, the Skype team has put up a blog post to look 5 years back in time, when Skype was made publicly available (in beta). In the post, CEO Josh Silverman mentions that Skype is nearing 350 million users, and boa

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Skype turns 5 years old, what will future hold?

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