It’s troublesome to recollect now, however in August 2020 there was a deeply surreal episode whereby Microsoft proposed buying some portion of TikTok in an advanced deal because the Trump administration was threatening to come back down exhausting on the platform. In the end, TikTok turned Microsoft down only a day earlier than Oracle got here in with a completely totally different sort of deal and the entire thing dissipated.
Talking at the moment on the Code Convention, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella mentioned the entire ordeal was the “strangest factor I’ve ever form of labored on.”
When it comes to the worth of such a deal for Microsoft, Nadella mentioned he “was sort of intrigued by it,” earlier than making an attempt to maneuver proper together with amusing, deadpanning after a pause “after which I suppose the remainder is…
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