[explicitadel]

> Why would MS spend all this money to just help the government? Its just asinine.

I was reminded of an old 2009 article [0] that speculated that the NSA was willing to pay big bucks to any company that could make Skype easier for them to intercept.

Maybe Microsoft took them up on that offer, and made a profit with their restructuring of Skype's architecture.

[0]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_...

[jszymborski]

While that's not unfathomable, it's very much Microsoft's modus operandi to centralise their services... it's a very corporate thing to do.

[JupiterMoon]

What is quite amusing is that they've basically taken Skype and gutted it down to something that is similar to the old MSN messenger.