$26.2 billion acquisition: Does Microsoft need LinkedIn or is it the other way around?

LinkedIn brings with it 400 million users and over 100 million active monthly users, which would act as a booster for services like Office 365 and Dynamics on which Microsoft is pegged to be placing huge bets.
In 2007, Microsoft attempted an acquisition of Facebook for $15 billion. But it failed, and the firm ended up picking up a meagre 1.6 per cent stake for $240 million. That was what experts view as Microsoft’s first attempt to expose itself to social networking, which commands millio