The $8.5 Billion purchase of Skype by Microsoft was accepted by the FTC ( Federal Trade Commission ) and has won itself an antitrust approval on Friday as reported by Reuters.

Microsoft in May had announced that it would acquire the Voice-over-IP (VOIP) client – Skype and would distribute several of it’s features for it’s already running services like the Xbox , Microsoft Outlook , Microsoft office , its Windows Phones and to make Skype’s video and voice chat features available on various systems and mobile devices .

Microsoft is on it’s way to gain complete control and access to all the Skype features and embed them within it’s software’s and devices to make it much more accessible for users on their network . It also intends to keep the software available for various Operating platforms to keep families and different users connected to their clients and friends .

This is a really wealthy investment that Microsoft has chosen to make with Skype . With millions of users on Skype using it almost daily to communicate through voice and video , Microsoft could dedicate it’s staff to make it a much better service considering the recent outages that Skype had unexpectedly faced .