[youssefsarhan]

Not sure about a Microsoft involvement.

Either way, I feel they will always have a conflicted product vision so long as their users and customers are separate entities. Imagine a feature that's brilliant for the user, but terrible for advertisers? Well, hard luck, it's off limits. It's strange that one party is using and another is paying. It profoundly limits the scope of the product.

[charlie_joslin]

Well if any major tech company would go after them it would be Microsoft. Facebook's integration in Bing, Microsoft buying Skype then integrating it with Facebook, etc.

I agree though. The first thing to do would be to get rid of the advertisers and charge for it.