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Please Microsoft couldn't even maintain Skype dominance after they bought it.
To be fair they bought skype to break it's end to end encryption at the behest of the us govt. In return they were awarded big contracts.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data
True, they ended P2P networking and proper encryption. It was pretty obvious in the context of Prysm scandal
And they killed MSN for it.