The Microsoft Acquisition Tracker

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1 pointbetocmn3 comments

Now we need a list of companies that Microsoft might acquire next. I'll start with:

* Atlassian: because tools for developers is a big thing for MSFT

* Red Hat: currently the most popular operating system on Azure (and Red Hat support is already based at Microsoft's Redmond campus anyway)

* Jet Brains: developer tools

Jet Brains makes a lot of sense, I agree!

Jetbrains is probably fighting a losing battle with ReSharper, but I still prefer it to Rosylyn editor improvements and CodeLens.

Their hope is to get out in front of .net core enough and leverage the fact that Rider can be 64-bit, while VS stubbornly remains 32-bit and suffers out-of-memory errors regularly under serious use.

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