MIcrosoft Buys Linked In

While the media did not focus on the local implications, hometown Software giant Microsoft made headlines with it's purchase of popular social network site, linkedin.  I rarely go to linkedin, but find it a good networking tool and often use it to post my blog entries.  Tech sites attribute the purchase, reported at 26 Billion Dollars as a way for Redmond based Microsoft to enhance it's data base, as if companies with that amount of assets need any enhancement