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To add:

1. Github acquisition: With already dev-tooling play they have, there is a clear strategy here. I think this will serve them well.

2. LinkedIn acquisition: Not sure how it is faring.

3. Friendly relations with open source projects: It improved developer mindshare

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Yup. You can compare them with Ballmer's big acquisitions – Nokia, Yammer, Skype, aQuantive. Almost all of them were completely written off.

- Using MS office pricing to push corporate to MS Cloud.

- VS Code as gateway drug

- Linux as first class integration

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I would like to see

- Office on Ubuntu

- Open version of Active Directory

You already have Office on Ubuntu via Office 365 and WSL.

visio? - nope

office 365 for large complex excel sheets with bloomberg terminal plugin - nope

MS just tries to embrace, extend and extinguish ubuntu(linux)

They are basically IBM in the 1970s/80s. I give them 20-30 more years and they will become irrelevant.

The bank accounts of IBM and Microsoft show how irrelevant they are in 2021, maybe they should stop doing their irrelevant Linux kernel contributions.

Linux doesn't need Microsoft help to be extinguished, the GPL haters will take care of that.

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