"Notice I didn't mention Apple.... Apple is not the next anything because the role it aspires to transcends anything imaginable by Microsoft, ever. Google is the next Microsoft, so Google is seen by Ballmer as the immediate threat -- the one he has a hope in hell of actually doing something about...
"Were Google to buy Skype they'd convert those 663m Skype subscriptions to Google Voice and Gmail and in a swoop make parts of Yahoo and MSN irrelevant. They'd build a brilliant Skype client right into the DNA of Android, draining telco revenue and maybe killing smaller players like Windows Phone. They'd cut deals with equipment makers like Cisco (Linksys) and NetGear and steal voice revenue from telcos and cable companies alike. That's all Redmondesque behavior and if anyone is going to be behaving that way, Ballmer feels, it had darned well better be Redmond"
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