Comment by jimduk

  - LinkedIn
  - Skype
  - Lies around Windows 10 semi-forced upgrade
  - Nokia
  - The hell that is Office365
  - Vermeer
  - Groove
  - Rare
  - Visio
  - Hotmail
  - FASA
  - Firefly

I don't mind their strategy from a business perspective, but from a human perspective I mind they have crushed the goodness out of so many companies they have acquired. It's analogous to the chinese cultural revolution, or if some 3rd rate florentine artist got to buy out Botticelli et al. just as they got started. I know this is not only Microsoft (Cisco, Google et al.) but MS are not innocent and don't deserve to have their slate wiped clean (yet)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...