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Ms bought Nokia - out of business Ms bought Skype - useless as Zoom won the Covid era MS bought Lynda.com- who? MS bought LinkedIn- does anyone pay $90 a mon

Ms bought Nokia - out of business Ms bought Skype - useless as Zoom won the Covid era MS bought Lynda.com- who? MS bought LinkedIn- does anyone pay $90 a month to use it? MS bought Danger - the best tactical keyboard mobile phone. DEAD MS bought Halo vr system a $3509 pos that never got an update Ms buys stuff , never making stuff.

davidmurphy 3y ago
I live near Linkedin HQ, and judging by their MASSIVE number of sprawling headquarters buildings, quite a few people do pay to use it
leosanchez 3y ago
> does anyone pay $90 a month to use it? Some do apparently
mbrumlow 3y ago
LinkedIn is probably the only one that don’t belong on that list.
pphysch 3y ago
Who made/makes VSCode?
- dagw 3y ago
  VSCode was an in house MS project
  - extraduder_ire 3y ago
    Wasn't the initial codebase github atom? So, about as in house as edge2 (the current one) is.
    - dagw 3y ago
      VSCode was released several years before the github acquisition, and is unrelated to atom.
amourgh 3y ago
Linkedin is used by every recruiter.Most of the recruiters pay. It has captured most of employment traffic
- jollofricepeas 3y ago
  And enterprise sales teams use it a ton as well. LinkedIn serves a few purposes: - It’s where Fortune 500 middle management networks and brags about professional accomplishments. - Its where enterprise sales people get leads and network with those middle managers - It’s where recruiters go to find talent of any type
vissidarte_choi 3y ago
And then, MS bought GitHub, OpenAI...
- sitkack 3y ago
  Hotmail, DOS, Windows NT (Dave Cutler from DEC)
  - dagw 3y ago
    I don't think NT belongs on the list as it was entirely developed in house. Sure the lead developer had designed an OS while at DEC and NT built upon his experience from that, but it was still a entirely new OS
    - sitkack 3y ago
      There was no in house talent behind it. Dave already knew what he was gonna build before he arrived. Yeah, compared to the others that came in wholesale, I think NT still counts as an acquisition.
aiscapehumanity 3y ago
MS AI research plus big game IP is a future investment

davidmurphy 3y ago

I live near Linkedin HQ, and judging by their MASSIVE number of sprawling headquarters buildings, quite a few people do pay to use it

leosanchez 3y ago

> does anyone pay $90 a month to use it? Some do apparently

mbrumlow 3y ago

LinkedIn is probably the only one that don’t belong on that list.

pphysch 3y ago

Who made/makes VSCode?

dagw 3y ago
VSCode was an in house MS project
- extraduder_ire 3y ago
  Wasn't the initial codebase github atom? So, about as in house as edge2 (the current one) is.
  - dagw 3y ago
    VSCode was released several years before the github acquisition, and is unrelated to atom.

amourgh 3y ago

Linkedin is used by every recruiter.Most of the recruiters pay. It has captured most of employment traffic

jollofricepeas 3y ago
And enterprise sales teams use it a ton as well. LinkedIn serves a few purposes: - It’s where Fortune 500 middle management networks and brags about professional accomplishments. - Its where enterprise sales people get leads and network with those middle managers - It’s where recruiters go to find talent of any type

vissidarte_choi 3y ago

And then, MS bought GitHub, OpenAI...

sitkack 3y ago
Hotmail, DOS, Windows NT (Dave Cutler from DEC)
- dagw 3y ago
  I don't think NT belongs on the list as it was entirely developed in house. Sure the lead developer had designed an OS while at DEC and NT built upon his experience from that, but it was still a entirely new OS
  - sitkack 3y ago
    There was no in house talent behind it. Dave already knew what he was gonna build before he arrived. Yeah, compared to the others that came in wholesale, I think NT still counts as an acquisition.

aiscapehumanity 3y ago

MS AI research plus big game IP is a future investment