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Adeptus, there are also other IM clients and other operating systems for your PC.

My point is that, yes, there are other companies who already did something, but the point of this VoIP communication integration is... it is integrated in Windows Live Messenger.

That means the user doesn't need a second app and doesn't need other accounts for communicating in another way. For the common user this is good news and a good thing which MS is trying to do. They would be able to call someone by just knowing their Windows Live Id.

Of course MS also tries to gain more footground in various industries and markets, that is what any healthy company would do, and even needs to do. MS is also far from short of innovation though (especially "on the top")! That's a major misconception. Don't judge MS by just one very small software product (WLM or whatever). Without the stuff MS does and without their massive efforts to innovate we wouldn't have a lot of products (software and hardware) which we have today. The R&D department of MS is huge and MS has a lot of assets to effectivly make something new.

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