Hey kowen look at all this ignorence
This was planned since day 1 whether mobile workforce ld be banging or not... They have a tone of overlap to cut... And considering WP8 is barely 3 yo and has already come back on apple and even passed apple in several major European market I wouldn't call that bad business... Pretty sure it'll do just fine in the long run especially in the business low cost market (where the real solid dough is)
Skype is not free and is officially fused with link which makes one of the biggest VoIP solution out there...
So yeah realm bad business right.,,
MS will and has to do Mobile first cloud first and support it with the right HW.. And as always will be reporting major profits you doing it...
MS is always the worst most stupid company... Yet they've been here longer, did and does better than most company in the same space for way longer too... And will continue to do so no doubt...