With Verizon FINALLY getting themselves some Apple-branded smartphone goodness, the world can finally focus on other, equally important rumors. Let's start with this one: Microsoft is hard at work developing their own in house answer to Apple's FaceTime.
Yep, despite the face that FaceTime is an open standard, the folks from Redmond are rumored to be developing their own video chat solution for Windows Phone 7 users. Why? Well, aside from the fact that adopting FaceTime as a standard for their smartphone OS would give new fuel to the old Microsoft always follows Apple's lead debate, Microsoft there's a very good chance that they plan on linking their preexisting Live instant messenger service.
Of course, we'll have more on this story as more details become available.
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