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Possibility of Microsoft buying Facebook is not unthinkable. Microsoft is already an investor in Facebook. Both HoloLens and Oculus are already moving in the sa
by bsldld 4y ago
Possibility of Microsoft buying Facebook is not unthinkable. Microsoft is already an investor in Facebook. Both HoloLens and Oculus are already moving in the same direction with enterprise play.
- foobarian 4y agoDidn't also a lot of Microsofties leave for FB a decade back or so? Could be an easy culture meld.
- PretzelPirate 4y agoIf love Microsoft to acquire FB for other reasons as well: 1. MS doesn't need to sell my data to make their services profitable. 2. MS could merge Facebook and LinkedIn so I could have a person and professional identity in a single app and switch between my networks! I don't have a FB account at all right now). 3. What's App could tie into the existing messaging infrastructure and work for Xbox or Personal Teams messaging. 4. MS could replace the Mixed Reality platform with Oculus. I use Mr for VR and the software kind of sucks and many games don't have MR controller bindings by default, though that's less frequent nowadays.
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- philjohn 4y ago1 - nobody, except the data brokers, sell data. Microsoft though, collects a huge amount (telemetry in Windows) and is leaning more heavily into ads in the core product.
- randoglando 4y agoThis will not happen, simply because Zuckerberg owns FB. Also, this deal makes no sense for FB. They still make a large amount of money (10s of billions every quarter) and the only advantage they get from this is Microsoft's brand (compared to FB's brand, which is currently doggshit).