Originally posted by FMF [quote][b]"Microsoft is switching off its Windows Live Messenger service on 15 March.
On that date Messenger log-ins will no longer work and users must turn to Skype, said Microsoft in an email sent to all Messenger users.
The email also encouraged users to update to Skype and familiarise themselves with the service before the switch-off.
The servic ...[text shortened]... mounts to a monopoly in providing this kind of facility. Is this to be expected and welcomed?[/b]
I just spoke to a friend yesterday that used to use Skype, but now has another, better service where she video chats withe her son in South Africa. It's called progress.
Originally posted by kmax87 it seems the greatest irony of slavishly following the free market libertarian view, is that unbridled competition tends towards monopoly. Without a well regulated market and strong governmental agencies to police anti-trust activities, consumer needs are usually the first casualty in the war of continued market performance and growth to satisfy and maintain ...[text shortened]... sualties of this approach. Justice for one. Just look at HSBC. Now we have too big to prosecute!
Most of the "slavish following" is toward the government planning interventionist mode. Free market libertarianism is barely breathing.
Microsoft to turn off Windows Messenger
18 Jan '13 18:50
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