OK, so MS is offering VoIP with their LIVE! service? Can they seriously pull this off? Sure, why not. After all, they are Microsoft and they’vedone pretty well with their newest ventures thus far…

In a Valentine’s Day keynote address at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Steve Ballmer announced the latest addition to the Microsoft Live Communication Server - VoIP service for mobile phones running Office Communicator for Windows Mobile. The service allows users to make free VoIP phone calls from their mobile phones or other portable devices over WiFi Internet connections.

Some analysts have responded to this news by hyperventilating, with claims of a coming “bloodbath” and the floor falling out of mobile phone operator stocks: [Read the rest]

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