Microsoft announced Thursday it is pulling the plug on LinkedIn in China nearly seven years after its launch. As social media platforms and websites like Twitter and Facebook have been blocked for more than a decade in China, LinkedIn was the last major U.S. social network still operating in the country. Microsoft said it would shut down LinkedIn due to a “significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements in China.” Instead, the company will launch a job search site in that doesn’t have LinkedIn’s social media features. Advertisements The news comes after a Chinese internet regulator told LinkedIn…