Genuine question... what do MS stand to gain from this?
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Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
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Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like the forced Win10 updates, spyware, ads directly in the OS which you paid for, ...?
You not liking it doesn't make it a poor business strategy.
By that standard, Ballmer doubling down on the shitty enterprise software that still makes gobs of money was a good strategy.
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#123Do many people use Yammer? The company that I'm with tried it a few years back and it just wasn't useful for us. I wonder if they will end up merging Yammer, or at least some Yammer features, into LinkedIn at some point.
It's essentially unchanged since they bought it. I think all they really did was put Yammer notifications in Outlook. I wouldn't be surprised if LinkedIn turns out the same way. They had to write off the Nokia deal (over 7 billion I believe), this might be the next one of those.
They also updated Sharepoint to support Yammer integration and made it part of the default Office365 offering.
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#124One word: Clippy
It looks like you're writing a resume! Would you like to set your LinkedIn status to "Looking for work?"
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
What market is exactly that? I still have no idea what Linkedin is all about. Edit: Yes, keep downvoting me, asking questions about LinkedIn clearly doesn't add to the discussion. sigh
It seems like LinkedIn is more the butt of jokes now than in its heyday when everyone was advised to get on it. Heyday being 2011-ish? Or is there a large number of C-level type people who went to elite colleges and are SV VCs who use it a lot, who are just out of my social league?
I'm curious - what do people use now to find jobs? I'm still relying pretty heavily on LinkedIn for recruiters to contact me.
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#127It seems like a good fit. I getting these .NET developer recruiters with their "perfect match messages" even though I don't have .NET in my skillset...
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#128New headline... "Bloated, behind the times corporate buys bloated, barely functioning social network."
Man, if you think Microsoft are behind the times then you've not been keeping up with them. In the software development world Microsoft are about as with the teams as a company of their size could reasonably be.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like the forced Win10 updates, spyware, ads directly in the OS which you paid for, ...?
You not liking it doesn't make it a poor business strategy.
But large numbers of people not liking it does make it a poor business strategy - not immediately, but it's the sort of thing people will remember.
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Ah, the armchair critic. I'm by no means a Microsoft fanboy, but things have been much better under Satya Nadella.
Like the forced Win10 updates, spyware, ads directly in the OS which you paid for, ...?
iOS is the same, I see "update to 9.something" everyday! Same goes for iTunes when you plug in your phone.