Microsoft to buy Skype, bringing service to Xbox Live, Kinect

Microsoft has fixed an agreement to purchase internet telephony and video communications company Skype for $8.5 billion, with plans to connect the service with Xbox Live and Kinect.

Xbox Live users can already talk and engage in Kinect-powered video chats with each other as well as users of Microsoft Messenger and Microsoft's business-focused Lync network.

But soon, Skype support for "Xbox and Kinect, Windows Phone and a wide array of Windows devices," will allow the service's 170 million registered users to "connect ... with Lync, Outlook, Xbox Live and other communities," according to today's announcement.

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