If Microsoft buys LinkedIn, I wonder if Facebook will now try to enter that territory.
Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
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Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#152Perhaps LinkedIn will use fewer evil antipatterns now that its ownership has something resembling a reputation to uphold.
Unsure if you're being serious... don't need to look much further than Windows 10 auto update to see how much Microsoft care...
Microsoft employs fifty thousand engineers. A group of them fucked up with that Windows 10 debacle. I reckon on the whole Microsoft very much do care about their reputation.
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#153A huge database which can be utilized for sales. Who to talk to with what profile, which kind of approach is likely to work, and so forth. A great opportunity for some data mining folks!
What I never get with these huge acquisitions is what about the user's privacy?
They never agreed with Microsoft to have their data but somehow ms automatically gets access to it?
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#154Somewhat more info in the press release: http://news.microsoft.com/2016/06/13/microsoft-to-acquire-li...
That makes $60.5 per user. Compared to other social networks this seems to be within a reasonable range.
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#155Holy fuck that is a lot of money. How on earth is LinkedIn worth anywhere near that?!
An existing user base is priceless. In france, when you sell a shop, you also sell for the "fond de commerce", meaning that an existing list of client is part of the price.
You also have to consider that so many companies use linkedin. It's an industry standard for professional networking, which has a different meaning than networking with friend ("consumer" networking I guess ?).
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#156Continuing my theory that Nadella doesn't know what he's doing. I don't think Microsoft learned anything from buying Yammer.
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#157Between Windows constantly pestering and even trying to trick me to upgrade to Windows 10 and getting LinkedIn requests from people I've only ever met once this is truly a match made in hell.
Windows 10 LinkedIn Edition
Update your LinkedIn profile with shell context menus!
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#158Earlier 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.
And the lobbyists have made the spurious practices, ala 'GatorWallet', OK for the "good guys" so it's no longer illegal, either.
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#159Holy fuck that is a lot of money. How on earth is LinkedIn worth anywhere near that?!
As someone else pointed out, their revenue is pretty decent. But their biggest asset is likely key staff as well as, as social networks go, that it has the cleanest/most useful database of users.
There are far cheaper ways of getting LinkedIn's database!
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
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, ...?
The forced updates are something that's been long overdue.
Imagine a world without old versions of IE that your webapps still have to support because else you're losing 10% of your users.