How Microsoft And Google Could Change Smartphones

It's long overdue for smartphone voice communication to be integrated with all the other details that smartphones know about us: our location, our activities, and our contacts.

A Microsoft-based Skype client could make that happen. It's not a one-horse race though; Google's got plenty of similar infrastructure with their Google Voice product and the Android platform to show it off. Apple has their FaceTime app as well, so you have to figure they won't let Google or Microsoft take over voice and video calls without a fight.