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> I thought the idea of Microsoft buying TikTok was funny

You're not wrong - it is a little funny.

But on the other hand, they have been running LinkedIn (and Github!) pretty successfully, so it's not that ridiculous.

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> running LinkedIn pretty successfully

Minus the avoidable password breaches

You mean the 2012 password breach that happened 4 years before Microsoft acquired the company?

Meh. Require everyone to submit a TLS client certificate to be able to login.

LinkedIn and Github are not TikTok :)

True, but they have both operated independently & incredibly successfully with full support from Microsoft’s leadership. If TikTok had a future, it was at Microsoft.

And Microsoft has a pretty successful consumer products division -- not the cash cow that enterprise sales are to them, but they do have consumer products. Including the Xbox division, which targets a lot of the market that TikTok does. Exactly what direct-to-consumer business targeting people in their teens/early 20s does Oracle have?

> Exactly what direct-to-consumer business targeting people in their teens/early 20s does Oracle have?

Ah, but therein lies the genius of the purchase.

In 40 years, the current TikTok userbase will be technology-hating, risk-adverse VPs -- a prime Oracle demographic.

They're just getting in early.

Speaking of which, I remember when my friends thought Minecraft was going to die because Microsoft bought Mojang.

Speaking of which, I remember when I thought Minecraft andead because Microsoft bought them.d Mojang were

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