[bigboy12]

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.

[amourgh]

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

[jollofricepeas]

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

[davidmurphy]

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

[mbrumlow]

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

[pphysch]

Who made/makes VSCode?

[dagw]

VSCode was an in house MS project

[extraduder_ire]

Wasn't the initial codebase github atom? So, about as in house as edge2 (the current one) is.

[dagw]

VSCode was released several years before the github acquisition, and is unrelated to atom.

[leosanchez]

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

Some do apparently

[aiscapehumanity]

MS AI research plus big game IP is a future investment

[vissidarte_choi]

And then, MS bought GitHub, OpenAI...

[sitkack]

Hotmail, DOS, Windows NT (Dave Cutler from DEC)

[dagw]

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]

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.