Microsoft's Acquisition Hunger Games

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Microsoft's Acquisition Hunger Games

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Microsoft's corporate strategy in a nutshell: "Haven't bought anything in a few months? Time to assimilate another company!" The meme perfectly captures Microsoft's notorious habit of solving boredom by acquiring everything in sight. From GitHub to LinkedIn to Activision Blizzard, their boardroom meetings must have a big red "ACQUIRE" button that executives slam whenever quarterly profits look too predictable. The alien overlord commanding "Begin the acquisition process" is basically Satya Nadella after his morning coffee, scanning the tech landscape for the next victim—I mean, "strategic partnership opportunity."

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