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Indeed - in fact Microsoft recently tried to buy Pinterest just to get a large company that they can move from AWS to Azure: > The deal, which would have been
by themolecularman 5y ago
Indeed - in fact Microsoft recently tried to buy Pinterest just to get a large company that they can move from AWS to Azure:
> The deal, which would have been Microsoft’s largest acquisition to date, confirms that the tech giant is continuing to pursue an acquisition strategy aimed at amassing a portfolio of active online communities that could run on top of its Azure cloud computing platform. Pinterest - which boasts more than 320 million active users - currently relies on Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its infrastructure provider.
source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlypage/2021/02/11/microsoft-reportedly-tried-to-buy-pinterest-for-51-billion/?sh=25ce6cbf595c https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlypage/2021/02/11/microsoft-...
- macintux 5y agoReminds me of the Hotmail fiasco.