Comment by wand3r

My dissenting opinion is that this is good. I am not a Windows user and only peripherally use their services however ironically I believe Microsoft is now the challenger if monopolies:

- Bing is one of the only english search engines with a big userbase; provides a google alternative. I like ddg but it isnt mainstream yet.

- Provides alternative to gmail and enterprise services

- a big 3 cloud provider, competes with AWS and GC. Likely why this github acq makes sense

- runs linkedin to keep fb in competition

There are a lot of examples where they drop the ball, but they are surprisingly the challenger in a lot of new markets providing an alt to the leader/incumbent