Seems like a better deal than the vapid fad that is TikTok, in addition to them partnering with Oracle which looks like a marriage made in a hellstew.
Well done Microsoft and Bethesda.
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TikTok is not an investment in tech, it’s an investment in relations with the US public sector. The fact that it comes with an actual company attached is almost irrelevant for Oracle.
MS has plenty of "relations with the US public sector" already, they won the DOD JEDI contract. They didn't need to spend anything on TikTok.
TikTok is a fad, like Instagram and other social networks.
I'm not sure about this take. Are Facebook and Twitter fads 15 something years later?
> MS has plenty of "relations with the US public sector" already
Indeed, which is why in the end they didn't go for it and oracle did: one of the two cared about improving the relationship more than the other.
Sure, but we are talking about Microsoft here.
You should look at the rumoured purchase price that Microsoft was willing to pay for TikTok.