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Another example of Microsoft purchasing what’s “trendy” and “ cool” to be relevant. They just buy hot tech and do nothing with it.
by bigboy12 4y ago
Another example of Microsoft purchasing what’s “trendy” and “ cool” to be relevant. They just buy hot tech and do nothing with it.
- llagerlof 4y agoThis definitely happened before, but they are doing fine with GitHub.
- tenpies 4y agoTo be fair, sometimes that is all that it takes. LinkedIn is after all still effectively a monopoly. And it's not just Microsoft. Whatsapp is another "do nothing" example that comes to mind where the work was done on the backend, but the app is functionally just as awful as it was when it became the de-facto messaging app for most of the world.
- aantix 4y agoThey've done pretty well with Github?