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by jariel 2145 days ago
" Acquiring a social media platform is going to catapault it into the heart of consumer tech."

It will catapault one of their subsidiaries into the heart of that.

Remember they used to 'own the world' through IE, very much a consumer product, and that didn't shape them.

They own Skype, one of the world's most prominent p2p communication tools, and screwed that up.