Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype hasn’t closed yet, nevertheless it feels like Redmond is already working backstage to make the service much more ubiquitous. In accordance with some anonymous sources interviewed by TechCrunch, Facebook goes to introduce video chat next week, and that service shall be powered by none except Skype. And while the service may be browser-based, it also includes said to incorporate a desktop component. We’d say none of that sounds too fantastical — video calls will be a logical extension of Facebook chat, and let’s not overlook the $240 million Microsoft invested inside the site back in 2007. What’s more, Facebook sent out invites for an event next week, where Mark Zuckerberg was clear the outfit would unveil a brand new product from its Seattle team. That’s in Microsoft’s backyard, without a doubt , the invites themselves have chat icons on ‘em, and, most tellingly, that Seattle office was snapping up engineers focusing on desktop software. All told, that adds as much as a probable true story to us, but we can’t know of course until the long, beachy weekend is thru.
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