I could see the whole operation moving over near LinkedIn's new digs near Maude...Microsoft's "campus" off of Shoreline is definitely "meh". Microsoft seems to be investing elsewhere for new digs anyway; they have a new building on the Sunnyvale side of Moffett.

It looks like Microsoft is looking to expand in Mountain View a little:

http://www.mountainview.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?...

See page 5.

There has not been much announced in way of what Microsoft intends to do with LinkedIn, so you haven't missed much. The acquisition hasn't gone through yet.

>LinkedIn to operate more or less independently

So it can continue to lose money by itself? Is it in MS style to make pure investments like this, at this scale?