[bigboy12]

Another example of Microsoft purchasing what’s “trendy” and “ cool” to be relevant. They just buy hot tech and do nothing with it.

[tenpies]

To 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.

[llagerlof]

This definitely happened before, but they are doing fine with GitHub.

[aantix]

They've done pretty well with Github?