The purchase of WhatsApp by Facebook was a major blow to the market, especially due to the sale figure of 19,000 million dollars. However, there were more companies interested in buying it, and we were not just talking about Google. Microsoft was also interested in buying the company, and this has been confirmed by Bill Gates himself, founder and president of Microsoft for many years.
Bill Gates has been one of the most relevant figures in the world of technology in the past century. Both he and Steve Jobs are responsible for making personal computers a part of everyone’s everyday life. It is not unusual, therefore, that he is interviewed every so often. On this occasion, he was asked about one of the hot topics, the purchase of WhatsApp by Facebook. And Bill’s response was clear, “Yes, yes, Microsoft was willing to buy too.” Thus, not only was Google one of the companies that wanted to buy WhatsApp, but also the Redmond company.
Of course, he also made a clarification about the amount they would have paid for WhatsApp, “I don’t know if we would have paid 19,000 million, but the company is extremely valuable.” On the one hand, you have doubts if they would have paid that amount for an application like WhatsApp. On the other, for him the value of the messaging application is very high. And actually, it is normal for this to happen in the case of Microsoft. One of its most used services in the world is Skype, and now that WhatsApp is going to integrate voice calls, it will undoubtedly become one of the most important rivals of Skype. For Microsoft, it would have been perfect to combine the two platforms, creating a single platform that will combine Skype’s international call services to landlines and mobiles with the WhatsApp user base. In any case, now the application is from Facebook,
