Microsoft is an advertising company so it'll be able to make very good use of that data to manage and target adverts better. It's not really down to "FOSS alternatives". There are *standards* for voice over IP. I guess Skype fits MS well in that its a proprietary non-standard 8) Alan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines