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Microsoft IM, SMS & Social on Mobile

This week Microsoft announced on their blog that ‘Messenger will be seamlessly built into Windows Phone, bringing texting and Instant Messaging (IM) together’. This is a part of the Mango update, and will provide a ‘seamless, built-in texting and IM experience powered by Windows Live Messenger.’

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Building a Social Microsoft Network

On the same day as Google’s I/O began with the announcement of a music service in the cloud, Microsoft bought Skype. Microsoft paid $8.5 billion for one of the most ubiquitous messaging services outside of MSN and Facebook messaging. It probably wasn’t an accident that Microsoft announced their biggest acquisition since 2007 on the same day as Google’s biggest event for the year.

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