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RTS is such a great genre. I know everyone loved StarCraft but I enjoyed Warcraft II and 3 more… along with C&C, Red Alert and Age of Empires. Not sure why.

Warcraft 3 was a great balance between micro and macro management due to the Hero concept. SC always just felt like a game of numbers… but I am sure I just wasn’t as experienced.

Regardless I would love it if the genre stayed alive and I am glad Age is continually updated and stable.

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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.

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

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

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

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

Who made/makes VSCode?

VSCode was an in house MS project

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

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

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

Some do apparently

MS AI research plus big game IP is a future investment

And then, MS bought GitHub, OpenAI...

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

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

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.

Wow, I completely forgot about Red Alert. That game was a blast!

I recently found an open source version that has been fun (https://www.openra.net/).

Right? And that soundtrack! I could listen to Hell March without the game. They actually released the full soundtrack as a CD.

Chew on this!!

Awaiting orders.

Affirmative!

What a gem.

Ah, sweet memories of Helm's Deep on WC3 Bnet

I too delusionally hope for warcraft 4 (a good one)

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