What Does Microsoft Buying Skype Mean For Linux?

After speculations that Facebook is going after Skype, it has turned out that Microsoft too was interested. In fact, today, we heard that Microsoft has bought Skype for $ 8.5 billion. One thing that I wondered when I heard
this new is what will happen to Skype on Linux. Everyone who has used
the Skype client on Linux knows that it is not even anywhere near the
level of the Windows and Mac